Would You Buy Milk In A Biodegradable Box?

May 31st, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

I mean truly biodegradable, as in made from a cardboard outer box made from pulped recycled cardboard and a biodegradable plastic inner liner made from corn starch. Would you be interested in buying your milk this way? I know most people probably recycle their plastic milk jugs, but this is an even better solution from Green Bottle. Once the bottle is used, the liner is removed and the bag can be disposed of in the general rubbish where it will decompose. The cardboard box exterior can be recycled like paper, and if not recycled, the whole bottle will compost at a landfill. Pretty nifty, no? Right now it seems to only be in the UK, but hopefully this technology will be here in the U.S. soon.

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  1. Comment by Diana on 3 June 2007:

    It sounds like an okay idea, but seems unnecessary to me. I buy my milk in glass bottles. As is true for most people who buy this way, I paid a bottle deposit the first time and now return a clean empty bottle in exchange for a full bottle each time.

  2. Comment by david on 3 June 2007:

    While that sounds like a great idea Diana, not everyone has access to milk in glass bottles. I wish we all did though!

  3. Comment by Alotta Errata on 30 August 2007:

    I hope they use this packaging for smaller containers of milk- right now we don’t use much milk and so the quarts and half gallons we buy dont’ come in the easy to recycle plastic jugs, but in cartons instead. I’m not sure if they can technically be recycled, but I know where I live I can’t recycle them and I feel terrible tossing them in the trash each week.

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