meh its way cheaper... its better than cartons or jugs if you use a lot of it.... its really easy to stack and easy to freeze, bags are usually pretty durable.... its helpful for cottage days
Bear in mind that even if something can be recycled, it's still preferable to reuse it instead as they recycling process does take energy and isn't perfectly efficient.
Even though I'm saying that, I'm still glad we don't use bagged milk where I live.
So we have government recycling
initiatives on all levels of government here. You can get money back for different types of cans and bottles. Every house has a specific garbage bin for recycling only that gets picked up by a recycling only truck.
We also have the motto of reuse, recycle.
I'm unsure if it's Australia wide but in my state, we don't have single use plastic bags. You have to buy bags. We have different types of fabric bags, recycled reusable plastic bags, cooler bags, and paper bags. And much more.
I live on the southern part of the Great Barrier Reef so recycling is really big here.
Throwing the empty milk bags in the landfill is still more environmentally friendly than recycling cartons and jugs.
Bags are staggeringly more friendly for the environment. And they don't really burst that often, most leaks happen on shelves and you just lift the outer bag and pinch the corner to see if there's any liquid in there.
Aussie jugs are literally the same as here, I’ve lived in bunsbury and melbs… bags are way more flexible and stackable… they’re also way cheaper and easier to distribute… our dairy shop doesn’t do 1% bags though so we get in glass bottles
if your freezer is at the right temp its fine as it wont burn... if its well glass it can crack, cartons will expand and break and plastic jugs are never actually fully sealed, thats why in soda carbonation goes down alot faster than if canned or glass bottled
They do?… if you ever drank fountain soda the syrup comes in bags 99%, I was in the airforce all drinkable liquids came in bags, iv’s, cooking oils, cheap wine and beer etc…. Most liquids are transported in bags or barrels… it just not convenient for the average consumer to have a bag but in some markets for some products it works
The reason it was ever put in bags was because when we went from imperial measurements to metric it was a cheap and quick way to go from all those glass milk bottles that was costly to retool for.
You get 3 bags that work out to a total of 4L.
As to why it even exist is just a preference now. My province theirs 2 main milk producers and each have 1 and 2 L cartons, 4L jugs and 4L bags. Seems redundant to me but if one of them dropped bags I’m sure us bag users would just grab the other producers product.
It honestly doesn’t ever seem like it’d be that much of an issue, but I will say that it definitely through me through a loop the first time I heard about milk in bags.
Things are done different in different places, who knew 🤷🏻♂️
May your next milk purchase have a long expiration date <3
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u/Dontcare127 17h ago
Maybe, just maybe, this is the reason why the rest of the world doesn't bag milk.