We've seen the square milk jugs which are supposed to improve delivery efficiency but they will still fill up your recycling bin. Dayless Organic Milk comes in a calcium carbonate bag and sounds delightful but looks hard to pour ... Enter JUGIT containers.
Future of Milk Packaging: Milk Pouch + JUGIT Container
For those without a local dairy, from which you can purchase milk in reusable glass bottles, milk pouches might be the least waste producing way to purchase milk. JUGIT container makes using milk pouches easy and convenient.
JUGIT was co-developed by UK based Dairy Crest dairy foods company and Sainsburgy supermarkets. The reusable jug, manufactured by RPC Market Rasen, was specially designed for milk pouches. Simply insert the unopened pouch into JUGIT, and a plastic spike opens the pouch upon closure of the lid. The pouches require only 25% of the plastic found in the equivalent size of container. The only thing that needs to be cleaned between refills is the spike (and two are included for instant refills!).
While this may not be as green as the calcium carbonate bag used by Dayless, a 75% reduction in waste is admirable. Creating earth friendly products that require little change on part of the consumer most certainly will increase adoption rates, and JUGIT does just that; turning milk pouches into something that behaves like a normal jug. Let's just hope they offer hormone free and/or organic milk in their pouches, and bring them to the U.S. in the near future.
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In Ontario, Canada this is how the majority of us buy our milk. It comes in three bags that equal four litres. When you dispense it, it goes in a milk jug and you cut the tip of the bag off. When the bag is empty you wash it out and recycle with your other plastic bags. I had no idea it was only in Ontario until I moved out here to British Columbia and can only buy milk in cartons or recyclable plastic jugs.
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I'm 26 and we've had milk in bags in Ontario as long as I can remember. What's useful is that because of the high density plastic used in the bags you can wash them out and re-use them for all sorts of things. Each bag washed out and cut in half can be used for about the volume of a sanwhich or some veggies or something in a lunch. They also keep your milk fresher for longer as they are still sealed and pasturized in smaller vessels until you use the bag.
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Much like Missee and Brodeo bags of milk that go into reusable jugs are familiar to me, but unfortunately only as a memory from my childhood thirty years ago.
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... or, you could empty the bag into a pitcher you already have.
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Milk dumped into a pitcher and exposed to air will pick up flavours from your fridge or spoil pretty quickly. Really don't recommend it.
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