Milk in a bag

Angela

Decided to go for the sainsburys offer to try this out.

ShaunJUK

Anyone else have leaking problems?

erdd2

I have been using them since january, have had no real problems now that I have learned not to be more gentle with shopping bags :eek:, buy and freeze when on special offer and have distributed the jugs to neighbours to take advantage of sainsburys present offer.

tronski

We got the jugs in the Sainsburys offer. Very pleased so far. Got 2 jugs - one for semi skimmed and one full fat for our young daughter. Always have some in the freezer too which stops us having to do a mad dash to the supermarket (and impulse buying whilst there). No problems so far and very pleased with them.

tanith

I've kept looking in Tesco but they only seem to ever have semi-skimmed and we use skimmed and full fat... maybe I'll have to pop into Sainsbury

scbk

LianeB wrote: »

As far as I could see it was being promoted more as a green product rather than saving money

I don't really see how it is a "green" product, plastic milk bottles are recyclable, these plastic bags would have to go to landfill

whitelabel

scbk wrote: »

I don't really see how it is a "green" product, plastic milk bottles are recyclable, these plastic bags would have to go to landfill

they use less plastic than bottles and are also recyclable too as far as im aware in most areas.

Ben84

scbk wrote: »

I don't really see how it is a "green" product, plastic milk bottles are recyclable, these plastic bags would have to go to landfill

Household recycling isn't as great as we're often told it is. The materials are mixed, widely distributed across the country in thousands of small amounts and are generally of low value. It's a process that consumes a lot of resources to gather these together, sort and process them, from the manufacture of thousands of extra bins, extra transport to move all this stuff around, labour costs and of course the energy to process these materials again, to summarise just a few ways recycling consumes resources.

Plastic recycling is I believe the most dubious one too as common plastic items are extremely low mass, for example a one litre PET squash bottles might be made from a couple of grams of plastic, despite being a bulky item. When you consider the space consumed for the density of plastic bottles, using a special truck to take them a few km further than needed is a bad idea as the oil to power the truck is more than went in to producing the bottle inside it. The cost, both in resources/energy and money to recycle plastic bottles I'm sure is more than the value of the bottles being recycled, leading to a negative environmental and financial return for doing this.

Convenient as they are and even if I believe it's better to landfill plastics, in their small way plastic bottles from households aren't great for the environment, so swapping to plastic bags of milk does mean less resources going in to distributing milk and a reduction in the bulky plastic bottles that take up space in wheelie bins, dust bin trucks and eventually landfills. Plastic bags should squash down much better. It may also lead to cheaper milk for customers as bottling plants won't need a bottle producing line any more (most are made at the place where they're filled because of the poor economics of moving empty ones around), while making all the plastic bags in one place and transporting them to filling plants would be entirely practical.

However, if you do really want to recycle the containers, Sainsburys will accept these milk bags in their plastic bag bins.

chuckley

ive NEVER seen it for skimmed milk. plus i get through 12 pints a week...

Lynsey

Hard (for me anyway) to read the offer date, but believe the 2 bags for £1 ends today (16th).
Got 2 bags last night together with another free jug-it and had a 30p sill spit, so four pints and a jug-it for 70p. :j

Probably won't use again until next similar offer - pity as I like the jug-it idea.

Lynsey