Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs

• Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bags

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That…looks so messy! I know there’s no crying over spilled milk, but have you SEEN the price of dairy??? Gotta work a second job just to afford breakfast!

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    • lung@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You put em bags into a hard pitcher thing you have at home, and cut the corner. So I guess it’s a bit less waste

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    • rollerbang@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That guy REALLY should have put an explanation there. Afaik there’s one province in Canada that still uses bags. Historically (30 years ago) many countries have used bags. Today most use either tetrapak, smaller bottle style plastic (0.25, 0.5, 1.0 litres) or actual bottles.

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      • Guttural@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Isn’t that an Atlantic Canada thing? I know Quebec has them, and I’m pretty sure we weren’t the only ones in Canada with bagged milks.

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    • CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s not messy, unless you make it messy.

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    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How much does milk cost where you live? Maybe it’s just because I live close to the source but milk is around $3 a gallon for me. For another data point eggs are around $2 a dozen, often on sale for $1 (current exchange rates are around 1:1 for dollars to euros for those in euroland)

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  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I miss bag milk. :(

    So jealous.

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• brb@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  1l cartons Image

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• boboliosisjones@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In Sweden we use 1 to 1,5L cartons.

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• GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  Futuristic technologies such as these

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  • X@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What accursed alien unholy wizardry is this burn my eyes burn my eyes

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• Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In Canada, they use gallon sized plastic bags

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  • RoastedMarshmallow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve lived in various provinces in Canada. West of Ontario I really only see the waxed-paper cartons or the plastic jugs, stores carry both equally. Eastern Canada carries the plastic bags (and everyone has a plastic container at home they place them in after snipping the bag corner) and often the cartons. Bit weird the custom changes across Canada, and coming from the west I was very confused about the bagged milk when I first moved to Ontario.

    Maybe someone else can comment on their experiences. I’ve never seen bagged milk in a store in the prairies (but I only lived in major cities).

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    • GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They had milk in 1.3 L bags (sold in packs of 3 for 4 L) in Manitoba about 35 or 40 years ago.

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  • excursion22@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tbh, I haven’t seen bagged milk for quite a while where I live in Canada. It’s typically cartons for 2L or less (though sometimes mini plastic jugs too) and plastic jugs as in OP for 4L.

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    • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Still very much a thing in Eastern Canada.

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      • excursion22@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Interesting how it varies across the country.

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  • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, a bag holding 3 x 1.3L bags.

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• stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  When I grew up here in Sweden, milk came in these containers:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetra_Brik

  The design of milk packaging is quite interesting;

  kommerduihag.se/kommer-du-ihag-hur-mjolkpaket-sag…

  15 years or so ago the Brik was changed to this:

  www.arla.se/artiklar/var-vanligaste-forpackning/

  It was apparently done for two reasons:

  1. EU regulations started requiring that milk packages were sold in resealable containers.
  2. Customers had requested the same to enable storing the packages lying down.

  A smaller version of the tetrahedron style package is still in use for coffee milk.

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• Cochise@lemmy.eco.br ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  One liter (0.26 gl) bottles or boxes.

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• Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Here in Australia we have:

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  1L Jug

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  2L Jug

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  3L Jug

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  1L Tetra Packs (Less common, more often for UHT milk)

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  1L Plastic Bottle (Less common, more often for high priced ‘fancy’ shit)

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  • Monument@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In the U.S. milk comes in half gallon and gallon measures, which look like your 2L and 3L containers, respectively.

    Sometimes you will find milk in waxed paper cartons, but that is not the norm. (It’s very common, however, for dairy products that are often bought by pint and quart — typically half and half, heavy cream, or coffee creamers.) Our fancier non-dairy creamers tend to be in tetrapaks, with less expensive (or at least distributed in higher volumes) creamers in plastic bottles.

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• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just to add, in Brazil we usually have 1l cartoons of UHT milk or 1l bags of pasteurized milk.

  Pasteurized milk goes bad in 3 days or so, and many people can’t run through the entire 1l in that time. UHT milk will last for a good 2 weeks after opened, so I guess that’s the kind you buy.

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• Flames5123@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bags I think.

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• Alsjemenou@lemy.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Square space efficient packaging that you can finish within spoiling time, allowing for fresher products without additives. Easier to pour, packaging easily collapses for easier disposal. Fully printable and recyclable. A superior packaging in every single way.

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