Organic Milk in Cartons or Non-organic in glass bottles??

HappySad

What can you reuse the plastic milk bottles for. I recycle so many of them each week and I would love to have a use at home for them. I was thinking of using the smaller 1pint bottles to make a childs play pit where you have a large pit filled with the bottles for them the roll about in.. like the plastic ball pits....

Caterina

Lizzieanne wrote:

I've been having organic milk delivered by our Dairy Crest milkman for a few years and was overjoyed when they switched to glass bottle just before Christmas! :j

Milk seems to taste so much better from a bottle.

Same here, Lizzieanne, they used to do Rachels (which I was very uneasy about as they are an American multinational!) - nearly gave it up in favour of Farmaround milk (which, by the way, is lovely, so it is good as an occasional treat). But I kept up and then now my milkman with Dairy Crest does glass bottles YIPPEE!

A very good milk I get very occasionally is unpasteurised raw milk from my local farmers market (Blackheath), which is supposed to be much better for health than pasteurised stuff - pasteurisation kills all the goody bacteria as well as any possible baddies.

Caterina

Caterina

HappySad wrote:

What can you reuse the plastic milk bottles for. I recycle so many of them each week and I would love to have a use at home for them. I was thinking of using the smaller 1pint bottles to make a childs play pit where you have a large pit filled with the bottles for them the roll about in.. like the plastic ball pits....

Good idea!

Other ideas:

Use them to protect small seedlings from bugs and bad weather in the garden, by cutting bottom and covering little plants, you only need to take lid off for watering.

Or fill them with sand, pour water in, put lid on and use as hand weights.

Or wash them well and keep buttons/nails/screws in them.

Caterina

sundin13

Hi All,

Link to the express dairies/dairycrest website page with their "latest news" - organic milk in glass bottles.

http://www.expressdairies.co.uk/newsinfo.asp?ID=25

Justie

Caterina wrote:

A very good milk I get very occasionally is unpasteurised raw milk from my local farmers market (Blackheath), which is supposed to be much better for health than pasteurised stuff - pasteurisation kills all the goody bacteria as well as any possible baddies.

Caterina

I grew up next to a dairy farm and we only ever had unpasturised milk and it's SO different. And if it's straight from the farm it's ultra fresh too - ours was always from that day's milking. Be careful though with giving it to the elderly, very young or immunosuppresed people on an occasional basis (fine if it's all the time as the body works out which bacteria is good, bad etc) as it can cause problems.

Dustykitten

Paul_VW wrote:

why not write to dairy crest (they deliver to about 80% of the country I think) and ask them why they dont? (they do milkshake and fruit juice in bottles, so it cant be that hard to do organic milk in bottles!!)

It is Dairy Crest that supply my milk in glass bottles - delivered by Express Dairies.

shirlgirl2004

After seeing this thread I decided to get my milk delivered by Dairy Crest. I ordered 2 pints a day and got 4 yesterday and none today. I guess that means we're on restricted deliveries or something. Adding insult to injury it was in those horrible plastic containers which is what I wanted to avoid.:mad:

Dustykitten

shirlgirl2004 wrote:

After seeing this thread I decided to get my milk delivered by Dairy Crest. I ordered 2 pints a day and got 4 yesterday and none today. I guess that means we're on restricted deliveries or something. Adding insult to injury it was in those horrible plastic containers which is what I wanted to avoid.:mad:

I think you will find that most milkmen deliver only 3 days per week. Mine is Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Environmentally this must be better and it isn't a real problem for us even getting our 9 pints on Friday. You don't say which milk you are getting - is it organic? Mine is organic semi and I asked before ordering if it was in glass and it is - I'm in Hertfordshrie if that helps.

pollys

We get our milk delivered (from a local dairy farm - but not organic) 4 days a week. We have 4 pints a day but manage to store it with a bit of "juggling" in the fridge. It was important to us to have glass bottles and support the local farm.

500yearvision

Glass milk bottles are brilliant.

They don't leach nasty chemicals & are a perfect example of reuse - each bottle is apparently used 10 times before going missing.

I just wonder why more companies haven't figured out that this is such a great packaging option, which could be used for many other products, such as the nice juice & smoothie companies etc. even Covent Garden Soups and other 'organiky' type companies could use them for chilled liquid goods.

I think the main problem with the milk bottle is the closing mechanism. I've searched the Internet for a bottle stopper for milk bottles - even something like the right sized cork stopper would work. If I could find such a thing, I'd use milk bottles to carry my drinking water in.

(ps I had been investigating this as a business idea so I'm a little milk bottle obsessed!)