Home Milk Delivery: No longer a thing of the past


Posted December 1, 2022 by axonseo123

Talks about the return of home-delivered milk! Comes straight from the farm that produces it. Fresh and worth trying home delivered milk

 
They say that no one's ever really gone and that’s certainly true of the home milk delivery service! While the sight of the milkman coming down the road with glasses of milk may be a distant memory to many, the milk delivery industry has seen an unexpected boost due to the global pandemic and the frantic schedules brought on by modern life.

This turn towards the milkman is thanks in no small part to the UK turning away from single use plastics that milk cartons are traditionally made from (HDPE is recyclable but it’s found that only 30% of cartons actually are : https://foodinsight.org/sustainability-of-single-use-plastics/). This means that the old glass bottle with a silver foil cap is increasingly attractive.

Glass is far easier to reuse than plastics, either for more fluid storage or for a different purpose around the home. Glass bottles are often used for creative lighting solutions, storage solutions or even as a makeshift vase. The possibilities and uses are far more obvious than that of a plastic carton, particularly the types that milk often comes in.

Glass can also be reused in the milk process, it’s a far simpler and more convenient way of reusing the milk bottles and the user gets to see the process in action. The milk delivery process aims to use the same bottles over and over until they become damaged or unusable. The customer simply takes the milk then washes out the empty bottles and leaves them outside, ready for pick up the next delivery day.

You could also make the argument that having milk delivered to a neighbourhood is better for the environment from a car emissions standpoint. Better for one single delivery to several houses than several homes making the same journey to the store every time they are out of milk. This is obviously very circumstantial and there are many different factors at play however and if it does have much of an impact on emissions, it would likely be minimal.

Milk home delivery also has many other benefits beyond the environmental benefits. The convenience of home delivery is a plus that will be attractive to many. There’s also something inexplicably nice about the whole process. The old school nature of it, the foil cap. While life becomes more and more about the little pleasures, this will certainly appeal. Also, many of us want to be supporting local industries and businesses and a home milk delivery gives you more of a sense of where it is coming from than just buying it from a named brand at the store.

There’s also the idea that milk from a glass bottle just tastes nicer. It can get colder and stay colder longer than milk from a plastic carton which certainly helps. It’s also a more hygienic material which means the milk has a crisper and more natural taste. However, there is also scientific evidence that milk under LED lights can taste bad and light can also affect the milk in other ways, this being a particular problem with glass bottles as it is far more transparent than other glass container materials.

Home milk delivery is no longer a thing of the past, it’s increasingly a modern solution to our growing milk needs and our move away from plastic bottles. If you would like to try getting milk delivered to your door; check out https://www.elmfieldfarmdairies.com/ for more information.
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Issued By Tegan Butcher
Country United Kingdom
Categories Agriculture , Consumer , Environment
Tags milk , consumer , healthy eating , milk production , fresh milk
Last Updated December 1, 2022