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over a year ago
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"I remember getting small cartons of milk given us in school. Then the iron lady took it all away.  "
Thank fuck for that. It was always warm and horrible tasting. |
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My sister still has milk delivered by the milkman in glass bottles 
The cartons were not very environmentally friendly, worse than plastic bottles.
The plastic bottles can be easily recycled so long as people are willing to separate them and put into the correct bin.
The cartons have to go into the general waste bin and end up in landfill. They are cardboard coated in plastic and it is too costly and difficult to recycle them. |
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By *j48Man
over a year ago
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"My milk comes in recyclable cartons  "
No such thing as recycling rubbish soon - China doesn't want anymore. The lot will carry on going into landfill
Another half baked idea that sounds good that doesn't happen to cope with the actual amount of waste we are forced to produce IMHO |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"What was wrong with glass.  "
I remember on really frosty cold days the foil tops would sometimes be popped off of the glass bottles by the cream pushing up and out. Ah, I feel old now |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My dad gets his milk from the milkman, milkperson, milk delivery, in glass bottles and cost no more than from a supermarket. "
Can you still get them with gold foil lid. The cream was about an inch deep at the top of those bottles |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"My sister still has milk delivered by the milkman in glass bottles
The cartons were not very environmentally friendly, worse than plastic bottles.
The plastic bottles can be easily recycled so long as people are willing to separate them and put into the correct bin.
The cartons have to go into the general waste bin and end up in landfill. They are cardboard coated in plastic and it is too costly and difficult to recycle them."
Exactly this.
There is a small increase in a return to glass bottles but the supermarkets are unlikely to take them. However, with Iceland and Aldi committing to reducing plastic use it might start a trend.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"What was wrong with glass.
I remember on really frosty cold days the foil tops would sometimes be popped off of the glass bottles by the cream pushing up and out. Ah, I feel old now "
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"Milk should be for baby cows 
I agree with you there it’s disgusting stuff
I use coconut flavoured Alpro and it comes in cartons  "
Oooh yes lovely - I like almond milk too.
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"Milk should be for baby cows
I agree with you there it’s disgusting stuff
I use coconut flavoured Alpro and it comes in cartons
Oooh yes lovely - I like almond milk too.
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I make my own nut milk (no sniggering) and oat milk. I still like cow juice too, though. |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"I don't remember cartons of milk. I'd be fucked carrying 8 pint bottles back from the supermarket. "
Did you go straight from glass to plastic without the tetrapak phase? How is this possible (given our age and near location)?
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"Milk should be for baby cows
I agree with you there it’s disgusting stuff
I use coconut flavoured Alpro and it comes in cartons
Oooh yes lovely - I like almond milk too.
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I make my own nut milk (no sniggering) and oat milk. I still like cow juice too, though. "
I struggle to find the teats on oats.
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"Milk should be for baby cows
I agree with you there it’s disgusting stuff
I use coconut flavoured Alpro and it comes in cartons
Oooh yes lovely - I like almond milk too.
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I make my own nut milk (no sniggering) and oat milk. I still like cow juice too, though. "
...too late |
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"Milk should be for baby cows
I agree with you there it’s disgusting stuff
I use coconut flavoured Alpro and it comes in cartons
Oooh yes lovely - I like almond milk too.
X
I make my own nut milk (no sniggering) and oat milk. I still like cow juice too, though.
I struggle to find the teats on oats.
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Ha ha ha. |
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"Milk should be for baby cows
I agree with you there it’s disgusting stuff
I use coconut flavoured Alpro and it comes in cartons
Oooh yes lovely - I like almond milk too.
X
I make my own nut milk (no sniggering) and oat milk. I still like cow juice too, though.
...too late "
You want a milking? |
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"I don't remember cartons of milk. I'd be fucked carrying 8 pint bottles back from the supermarket.
Did you go straight from glass to plastic without the tetrapak phase? How is this possible (given our age and near location)?
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I can't remember! I'm going to Google a pic and see if it jogs my memory. Tetrapak sounds familiar though. |
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"What was wrong with glass.
I remember on really frosty cold days the foil tops would sometimes be popped off of the glass bottles by the cream pushing up and out. Ah, I feel old now "
Lol then the blue tits came and stole the cream  |
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"Milk should be for baby cows
I agree with you there it’s disgusting stuff
I use coconut flavoured Alpro and it comes in cartons
Oooh yes lovely - I like almond milk too.
X
I make my own nut milk (no sniggering) and oat milk. I still like cow juice too, though.
...too late
You want a milking?"
Always always always always!  |
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"My dad gets his milk from the milkman, milkperson, milk delivery, in glass bottles and cost no more than from a supermarket. "
It does, it’s about 90p a pint from our milkman. It’s £1 for 4 pints in the shops which incidentally is way too cheap. I’d rather pay more if the extra went to the farmers. They get paid something like 2p per pint by the supermarkets. |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"My dad gets his milk from the milkman, milkperson, milk delivery, in glass bottles and cost no more than from a supermarket.
It does, it’s about 90p a pint from our milkman. It’s £1 for 4 pints in the shops which incidentally is way too cheap. I’d rather pay more if the extra went to the farmers. They get paid something like 2p per pint by the supermarkets."
Waitrose pay 32p per litre. I don't buy a lot of milk but I will only buy it from farm shops linked to dairies (when I'm in the country) and Waitrose when I'm at home.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Milk should be for baby cows
I agree with you there it’s disgusting stuff
I use coconut flavoured Alpro and it comes in cartons
Oooh yes lovely - I like almond milk too.
X
I make my own nut milk (no sniggering) and oat milk. I still like cow juice too, though.
...too late
You want a milking?
Always always always always! "
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By (user no longer on site)
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We still Get milk from the milkman in glass bottles.
I remember having milk in plastic bags for a while that you had to put in a blue jug and cut the corner off to pour, |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"We still Get milk from the milkman in glass bottles.
I remember having milk in plastic bags for a while that you had to put in a blue jug and cut the corner off to pour, "
I remember those! I think we did it once.
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"We still Get milk from the milkman in glass bottles.
I remember having milk in plastic bags for a while that you had to put in a blue jug and cut the corner off to pour,
I remember those! I think we did it once.
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I don't remember those either. |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"We still Get milk from the milkman in glass bottles.
I remember having milk in plastic bags for a while that you had to put in a blue jug and cut the corner off to pour,
I remember those! I think we did it once.
I don't remember those either. "
Maybe it was when I was in America or Canada? I keep picturing a really large fridge and my aunts.
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"We still Get milk from the milkman in glass bottles.
I remember having milk in plastic bags for a while that you had to put in a blue jug and cut the corner off to pour,
I remember those! I think we did it once.
I don't remember those either.
Maybe it was when I was in America or Canada? I keep picturing a really large fridge and my aunts.
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Doesn't sound familiar at all. |
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"We still Get milk from the milkman in glass bottles.
I remember having milk in plastic bags for a while that you had to put in a blue jug and cut the corner off to pour,
I remember those! I think we did it once.
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Twice here |
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"We still Get milk from the milkman in glass bottles.
I remember having milk in plastic bags for a while that you had to put in a blue jug and cut the corner off to pour,
I remember those! I think we did it once.
Twice here "
Why don't I remember these things?? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I liked the whole milk bottle delivery of yesteryear.
And when you had themed milk bottles (Cornflakes or Marathon, as was).
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You can have a milkperson delivery in Cambridgeshire, we have our milk delivered to work |
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"I liked the whole milk bottle delivery of yesteryear.
And when you had themed milk bottles (Cornflakes or Marathon, as was).
You can have a milkperson delivery in Cambridgeshire, we have our milk delivered to work "
Oh that’s lovely! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"We still Get milk from the milkman in glass bottles.
I remember having milk in plastic bags for a while that you had to put in a blue jug and cut the corner off to pour, "
Oh we used to do that often I. The caravan. I can’t remember where the site(s) was/were. But I remember the bags and the blue jug vividly. I think it was in North Wales but can’t be certain |
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"Crickey I never even noticed until you said so, I am a little worried my powers of observation are faulty XXX"
Ditto.
Weird.
I brought back a 1 litre glass milk bottle from the US, on my last trip.
Just because it was really simple, had a resealable top, and I can decant my milk from a plastic bottle, into it.
My relatives, in South Yorkshire, still get milk delivered in glass bottles.
The milkman will, also, deliver orange juice, eggs etc. with a monthly bill.
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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The OP got me thinking about how I could reduce my plastic consumption and I'm going to try and returning to bars of soap (well, non-soap).
Has anyone used any of the shampoo bars? Has anyone found a good conditioner bar?
I have big thick hair which can get very frizzy. Will a shampoo bar cope?
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"Lush might be worth a look. "
I remember them before they became Lush and opened smelly stores. They definitely have a conditioner but I'm interested in efficacy.
You have long hair, do you use the bars?
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"Lush might be worth a look.
I remember them before they became Lush and opened smelly stores. They definitely have a conditioner but I'm interested in efficacy.
You have long hair, do you use the bars?
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I do not. Although i have gone from 5 plastic drink bottles per week to none. (Packed lunch drink) |
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"Lush might be worth a look.
I remember them before they became Lush and opened smelly stores. They definitely have a conditioner but I'm interested in efficacy.
You have long hair, do you use the bars?
I do not. Although i have gone from 5 plastic drink bottles per week to none. (Packed lunch drink)"
Thats only because you're signed off work |
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"Lush might be worth a look.
I remember them before they became Lush and opened smelly stores. They definitely have a conditioner but I'm interested in efficacy.
You have long hair, do you use the bars?
I do not. Although i have gone from 5 plastic drink bottles per week to none. (Packed lunch drink)
Thats only because you're signed off work "
Lol! That was only 3 days! |
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"Milk should be for baby cows
I agree with you there it’s disgusting stuff
I use coconut flavoured Alpro and it comes in cartons
Oooh yes lovely - I like almond milk too.
X
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I prefer the Alpro original soya milk, the flavoured ones are ok in coffee, but they destroy a cup of tea!
I'm also a massive fan of Bamboo toothbrushes too! I've got one that allegedly has plant based bristles, which are fully biodegradable, and has outlasted any plastic toothbrush I've ever bought!? I normally have to replace them every month or so, as I'm a bit heavy handed, but this one's lasted over 3 months so far. |
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"I remember milk delivery in glass bottles oh they were the days, I also remember my dad having sterilised milk in glass bottles just for his cereals "
And if you didn't get it in, pronto, it's all become cream and go really manky. It lasts forever now, which is a little worrying. |
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The 'struggling to open them' is a mute point.
The cartons come with a screw top now, check out the lactose free milk, almond milk, soya milk etc for what I mean. What do these have in common...all more expensive than normal cow's milk!
So it's cost. |
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"I remember getting small cartons of milk given us in school. Then the iron lady took it all away. shit!! Our milk was in bottles,how flippin' old am I !!  "
Same! |
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"I liked the whole milk bottle delivery of yesteryear.
And when you had themed milk bottles (Cornflakes or Marathon, as was).
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ive got a few of those in stock |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"Please watch this..
https://youtu.be/cLT_4R39-Zc"
That's a sober reminder of the challenge.
I've been looking for compostable (rather than biodegradable) products. There's not much out there.
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By *amissCouple
over a year ago
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"Milk should be for baby cows
I agree with you there it’s disgusting stuff
I use coconut flavoured Alpro and it comes in cartons
Oooh yes lovely - I like almond milk too.
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We have the almond and soya milk in cartons |
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"I liked the whole milk bottle delivery of yesteryear.
And when you had themed milk bottles (Cornflakes or Marathon, as was).
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I used to like the Christmas bottle tops with holly on them. That's when I really knew Christmas was close! |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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I've started the plastic free bathing experiment.
If it lasts 2.5 x longer than the stuff in the bottles then it will cost about the same. If not, then it's going to cost me money to reduce my plastic footprint on the planet.
My hair looks ok but it smells odd (to me). I'll get used to it.
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