Avoid Plastic Pollution with Milk in Reusable Glass Bottles

Here we look at; Plastic Pollution from Plastic Milk Bottles; (Re)Introducing the Milkman(or Woman); and Introducing Cotteswold Dairy Milk in Glass Bottles. This is one of over 40 ideas in our Sustainability Roadmap with Solutions to Climate Change, and part of our series on Eating Sustainably.

If you already know you want to avoid plastic pollution ands single-use plastics, here are the options to switch to milk in returnable and reusable glass bottles:

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On our mission to get plastics out of our lives, we’ve already swapped to reusable coffee cups, reusable water bottles and more. Next on our hit list was getting rid of single-use plastic milk bottles.

We make our own homemade oat milk and use that for cereals, pancakes, most things that normally call for dairy milk. We keep a big bag of oats and use reusable bottles, which means we’re pretty much zero waste and zero recycling when it comes to oat milk.

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We now only use dairy milk for coffee. We tried oat milk and all the other alternative milks but we just don’t like the flavour in coffee. Unfortunately, plastic has infiltrated many areas of our life and single-use plastic milk bottles is one of those areas.

Pollution from Plastic Milk Bottles

Using single-use plastic bottles just to transport milk home is such a massive waste.

Years ago milk came in returnable and reusable glass bottles. The perfect example of a circular economy. Glass bottles being produced then used for years. I’ve no idea why this changed, it’s an excellent system.

Luckily, there’s a way to get back to a time when milk was delivered by a milkman (or woman) on a milk float, in bottles with those lovely foil lids.

(Re)Introducing the Milkman(or Woman)

On our mission to help climate change, we wanted to cut down on all unnecessary plastics, especially single-use plastics.

We were getting milk in plastic bottles. It always seemed such an incredible waste. A plastic bottle, just to transport milk to our house. We empty the milk out of it then the bottle goes into recycling.

Then loads of resources are used recycling that plastic bottle, possibly into another plastic bottle to do the same thing all over again; another single-use plastic bottle for milk. Crazy…

Sometimes the plastic bottles may not even get recycled because plastic can only be recycled 1 to 10 times, although most can only be recycled once.

So, I went on the hunt to try and relive those fantastic days where a lovely person gets up super early in the morning to deliver glass bottles of milk at the same time as collecting the used glass bottles.

I found two options of doorstep milk delivered.

Cotteswold Dairy Delivering Milk in Glass Bottles

Cotteswold Dairy is one of the largest independent family dairies in the UK. They work with over 40 different family farms, and have service depots in Cheltenham, Tewkesbury, Hereford, Shropshire, and North Wales.

They’re goal is to be the Leading Environmental Family Dairy by 2025. You can learn more about their sustainability.

https://youtu.be/qvrJOSYu5_M

We use Cotteswold Dairy for weekly milk deliveries of Channel Island milk in glass bottles. You can read more about the farmers that produce their Channel Island milk.

I love that we could turn back the clocks and get old-school doorstep milk deliveries. It’s always a nice feeling, popping out the front door early in the morning to collect the freshly delivered glass bottles of milk, ready to make a coffee. It’s also great knowing that I can just wash out the glass bottles, pop them on the doorstep, and they’ll get collected and reused over and over again.

Find Out If Cotteswold Dairies Delivers to You

Milk and More Delivering Milk in Glass Bottles

Before we moved to Pershore, we had milk deliveries from Milk & More.

You’ll still be getting the classic weekly doorstep milk deliveries in returnable and reusable glass bottles.

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This was produced by me, James Walters, as a personal project to help stop climate change by inspiring others to grow, eat, and live sustainably.

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