Say goodbye to your milk cartons
With retailers like Wal-Mart and Home Depot offering shelf-space preference to green products, it's no wonder that companies are clamoring to redesign their packaging. But earth-friendly packaging for the milk industry? In what other than a carton or a bottle could you possibly sell milk?
Apparently, you can sell it in a bag. Calon Wen, an organic dairy co-op in Wales, now packages milk in polythene bags, which can then be transferred by consumers into reusable milk jugs made from glass. Compared to a plastic milk jugs, which account for 100,000 tons of trash a year in Wales alone, polythene bags use 75% less plastic.
Sure, polythene bags make environmental sense, but will it catch on with consumers? My guess is yes. Milk in a bag is oh-so-astronauty. And if there is one thing that sells stuff it's astronauts. The exception to this rule would be adult diapers, which I imagine will never recover from the PR disaster they took earlier this year.
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bonnie, 6-29-2007, 6:47PM
You all make me laugh the canadians have had milk in bags for years thats a shame how the north usa says the south is backwards well guess what usa wake up you all are in the dark ages yourself this really makes me laugh this will hold me happy for at least a month
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