Meadow Fresh is ditching glass milk bottles!

[labellementeuse]

If anyone wants to take ten seconds to send a note to Meadow Fresh telling them not to ditch glass milk bottles for the South Island, the link is here. :( Glass milk bottles are better for the environment (because they're cleaned and reused), milk tastes better out of glass bottles, and they employ tonnes of people- kids with after school jobs & so forth. Glass milk bottles were already ditched for the North Island- stop them doing it in the South! Frogblog has a bit of information here.

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[shoeless-girl.livejournal.com]

Done.

Glass milk bottles are the best. I miss them :(

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Me too! I didn't realise they still had them in the SI till I saw a bunch sitting outside the Law building. I was all "eee, glass milk bottles!" ;)

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

I vaguely recall having glass bottles. Once upon a time.

I didn't care until reminded that they are reused rather than chucked, like all the plastic bottles from our household...

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

But also, they're aesthetically pleasing. ;)

[kuril.livejournal.com]

interestingly, beer and soda glass bottles are saved by all establishments and reused in S. Korea. I'm guess there's a savings cost involved for merchants and bottlers. rather good idea, but a good many american hates it because they're afraid of cooties or something.

[cactus-cat.livejournal.com]

*does*

I didn't realize we had glass bottles so recently - I was 16!

If they have to change, they should make milk bottles out of PET and recycle them as polarfleece jackets. ;)

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

I know! I was really sad when we got rid of them. :(

Heh, yeah.

[(Anonymous)]

Done. I got a reply back from a real person!

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

So did I! A fairly formulated response, but still, it's kind of nice.

[kuril.livejournal.com]

but but plastic milk jugs are great for storing cooking and motor oil! besides, NZ has plenty of nooks and crannies to store the waste. don't deprive south island citizens of their freedom to excess waste and oil storage.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

*snicker* Um, cooking and motor oil? Not both at once, I hope.

...also, what kind of cooking, exactly? *confuzzled*

[kuril.livejournal.com]

Oh come now! Kiwies must deep-fry their foods! If not, maybe greater Military cooperation would cause a cuisine revolution when all the U.S. GIs take part in exercises with NZ and demend fat-fried foods! Oh man! Where's Donny!!?

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

... you can fit fish and chips in a plastic milk bottle?

Can I get a WTF?

[kuril.livejournal.com]

I guess I'm assuming you know how foods are deep-fried. Food is put into this metal vat of piping hot cooking oil, and subsequently fried. The used oil is then drained into milk-jugs.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

...

you frighten me strangely. I thought the used oil was then, you know, left in the vats to do the rest of the food?

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with holding on to the oil until it gets up and wlaks out on its own?



The problem with this scenario is the fact that, uh, no -one actually reuses the bottles in this way rendering the idea pointless.