Get milk from your milkman/woman campaign (Merged)

Gillylou

On a similar theme of 'say no to plastic bags' campaign, how about getting milk delivered from your milkman, as long as they use glass bottles. Not necessarily money-saving, but reduces waste from plastic bottles.

Hermia

It's a nice idea, but I leave for work before the milkman arrives. I wouldn't want to leave milk on the doorstep all day 'cause it will either go manky in the sun or be stolen or the nasty kids in the street will smash the bottle. I think I'll have to stick with getting if from a shop!

scootermacc

I already get milk delivered. It is more expensive than the local shop, but I throw far less stuff into landfill through not using milk cartons now. This is the main reason I do it.

Our milkman delivers at 2.30am, so maybe you should shop around and see whether there is another dairy who can deliver at the time you want!

metherer

I'm another one who gets milk delivered.
The express dairies chain sell a lockable cool box for your doorstep. You leave it unlocked, the milkman comes along, deposits your milk, and locks it shut. I think it holds two bottles.

I don't have that problem because althrough it arrives after I go to work, my doorstep is in shade after 10am.

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pollys

I have mine delivered too from a local dairyman in glass bottles. It's delivered at about 5.30am. There is no waste at all as the kerbsiders will take the foil lids. The local farmshop sells bottled orange from the milkman same bottles and tops but mine just does the milk.

starlite_2

I met a friend through my postnatal group who was amazed and delighted by the milk delivery.
She is from Texas and they have no such thing there..
she said she found it a delight to hear the milkman coming at 6am and all the glass clinking together..

When i was small we had milk, yogurts, juice and eggs delivered, and we had a 'bread van' twice a week with bread, dry groceries, cakes and sometimes meat.

I see no reason to not have milk delivered..we live just off a central london A road and have never had milk stolen....

My only problem is my o.h who absent mindedly throws the bottles in the bin..hehe

FreebieFi

Have recently started getting ours delivered from the Milkman. We did drink organic milk but sadly the organic milk from the milkman is in plasticy/cardboard containers which can't be recycled locally, so we are getting standard instead as we can return the bottles. It's my ideal to have organic milk delivered in glass bottles

margaretclare

I've always had 'doorstep milk', now from Dairy Crest, before that it used to be a small local provider. Have been told many times that 'we can't afford it now we're on pensions, it's cheaper from the supermarket'. Yes, but you have to carry it, and landfill space is running out! Do these people who say this ever take their plastic bottles to the plastic bottle bank - you can take any plastic so long as it's 'bottle-shaped'? No, I bet they don't.

Margaret Clare

savvy

I get some milk delievered, just recently they cut the round down so they only deliever 3x a week now. Unfortunately I still have to buy goats milk from the supermarket:o

cleverjake

We get our milk delivered by Express Dairies. They do organic milk in bottles and they deliver early in the morning.

binna

I find it really annoying that a) the plastic milk cartons aren't clear plastic and therefore are really difficult to find a place to recycle them, and b) that the nearest place to me that recycles this certain type of plastic is 30 miles away. Why can't all large milk cartons be made out of clear plastic so that they are easier to recycle??