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It's too bad the alternative milk manufacturers don't seem to care much about packaging waste and energy expended due to transportation. They're all single use
by psychometry 5y ago
It's too bad the alternative milk manufacturers don't seem to care much about packaging waste and energy expended due to transportation. They're all single use plastics or unrecyclable tetrapaks.
There's a milk I can buy near me that's made locally and comes in an exchangeable glass bottle. That milk just happens to come from a cow.
- neogodless 5y agoI assume you're talking about things like this? https://productxplorer.tetrapak.com/packaging/package/tetra-rex-1893-max https://productxplorer.tetrapak.com/packaging/package/tetra-... That's basically all I've ever seen. Cardboard + plastic spout. From what I can tell, they are recyclable. https://earth911.com/home-garden/recycling-mystery-milk-and-juice-cartons/ https://earth911.com/home-garden/recycling-mystery-milk-and-...
- criddell 5y agoAnd also this: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/costofliving/we-answer-your-burning-questions-about-things-like-milk-bags-tariffs-condo-insurance-and-printer-cartridges-1.5409407/here-s-why-milk-comes-in-bags-in-parts-of-canada-1.5409420 https://www.cbc.ca/radio/costofliving/we-answer-your-burning...
- frosted-flakes 5y agoI love milk bags. I can dump them in the fridge drawer and they take up hardly any space, they don't weigh ten pounds each like 4L jugs, when empty they have a volume of zero, unlike 4L jugs, and they are way easier to pour. The only downside is they are not recyclable, but it's such a small volume of plastic I don't think it really matters.
- jefurii 5y agoWestSoy is one major soymilk producer that uses Tetrapak. In stores like Sprouts and Trader Joe's it's often the only soymilk available. Tetrapak is nice in that it doesn't need to be refrigerated until you open it, but it's made of paper with a layer of foil underneath it cannot be recycled.
- rsynnott 5y agoTetrapak can be recycled, though depending on where you live it may or may not actually be recycled. It's certainly more involved than recycling, say, glass.
- criddell 5y agoWhat do you think of bags of milk as sold in parts of Canada? If you google "canada milk bag" you will see what I'm talking about. It's still a single-use plastic, but is a pretty small amount. I wonder how the energy and water consumption for milk bags vs cleaning and sterilizing and refilling glass bottles compare?
- onlyrealcuzzo 5y agoI'm interested why it isn't viable to make an alternative milk powder you can mix with water. I imagine a large part of the cost of alt-milk is transporting that extra water weight and space.
- psychometry 5y agoIt might not be possible for a consumer to properly emulsify the mixture without special equipment.