Get milk from your milkman/woman campaign (Merged)

gromituk

Plastic milk bottles are one of the easier things to recycle - this is the only type of plastic my council's collection accepts.

To the earlier poster: even if your front step is in shade all day, the life of the milk will be seriously reduced by letting it warm up to ambient temperature. If you always drink it within a couple of days though, then that shouldn't matter.

Ken68

My local Dairy Crest milkman is in league with with Tyre depot.
Anyway surely 35p for a litre of skimmed milk is a bargain. Long Life, keeps outside of a fridge. Use the wax carton in the greenhouse.

binna

Our local council won't collect any plastic that isn't clear, which rules out lots of other items on top of milk cartons. Wih the nearest point to recycle them being 30 miles away I'm not sure which would work out less damaging, the petrol fumes or landfill of milk cartons?!

gromituk

Land-fill of milk cartons. As a rule, never make a special car journey to recycle.

apsie

We have a milkman - I have to say it's also been for moneysaving reasons as well as environmental ones, as I no longer need to pop to the supermarket just to get milk and end up coming out having spent way more than I intended on "special offers". We get fruit juice and flavoured milk too - yum!

mirandamayhem

we had nothing but trouble with our express dairies milkman. We have a large family, and so the idea of milk being there every morning appealed, along with the "greenness" of recycled bottles. Shame he kept forgetting to actually deliver the milk and still charge us regardless!

exlibris

We have always had a milkman with glass bottles. Unfortunately our new fridge is designed for plastic bottles and I can't get get enough in the door. WE do have a caravan and when we are away I save the plastic bottles we buy then and decant the bottled milk in them. OH makes wine so the plastic bottles are steralised frequently.

O major plus for me about the milkman is that he comes round regularly and I would like to keep him so that he can keep an eye on the street. He has been instrumental in getting help forelderly people in difficulties and as we are 'getting on in years' I might need him for more than milk in the future!!!

starlite_2

mirandamayhem wrote:

we had nothing but trouble with our express dairies milkman. We have a large family, and so the idea of milk being there every morning appealed, along with the "greenness" of recycled bottles. Shame he kept forgetting to actually deliver the milk and still charge us regardless!

Lol...

Reminds me of when my mum went away and cancelled the milk..they kept delivering it every day for three weeks..guess they didn't even wonder why there was an untouched row of 20+ bottles sitting there.

quickstepqueen

Am really glad I've found this thread. My father was a milkman for almost 25 years (before being made redundant) and I'm glad that many people are supporting their milkman. It's long hours, all weathers and apart from the recycling bottles etc the milkmen themselves are also community workers...you know, keeping their eyes out for anything out of the ordinary (often petty criminals in the early hours of the morning!)

I was often running out of milk (there's only me and the cats that drink milk) and I'd either have to resort to the stand-by long life carton in the cupboard or send the OH out to the shop. It was then one morning I saw Mr "stealth" Milkman delivering up the road. I stopped him and arranged a delivery. He gave me the option of either cartons or bottles, going on to say the bottles held a bit more than a pint. I didn't need an option, it was glass bottles all the way, and with a little extra milk as well it was perfect!

The dairy is just 5 miles away! My youngest stepson says it's the best milk he's ever tasted. The milkman delivers twice a week, once early morning and once around noon and I never see or hear him, even when I'm busy around the house. I swear he's got some sort of stealth radar!!!! I live rurally so thank goodness I've never had anyone steal the milk.

A pint of semi-skimmed milk costs me 42p and I think it's well worth it. I'm helping my milkman stay in his job (which he says he's done for over 35 years!), I'm not throwing away any of those plastic bottles and for me it's ultra convenient.

Also at Xmas they can deliver other products such as choccy selection boxes, biscuit tins etc. Last xmas I ordered a HUUGE Cadbury's selection box, which was not available in shops. Saved me having to carry it from the shop. Brilliant. I do think I'm lucky as my milkman is from a very local independent dairy. My father in his latter years worked for Dairy Crest and some of the milkmen there were not always helpful and often could not be bothered to deliver that extra pint as requested. When I called into his office the receptionist was always answering a complaint of some sort, so I can understand why some of you haven't always had good service.

HELP KEEP OUR INDEPENDENT DAIRIES ALIVE!!

Sybarite

I've just signed up with my local dairy, partly prompted by this thread and party as I no longer drive to my local rather horrible Sainsbury's hyperstore and a bit fed up having to carry milk home all the time.

Unfortunately my first delivery of semi-skimmed organic has arrived in single plastic pint cartons rather than glass - which isn't going to to help the landfill situation as was part of my intention.

Ho-hum