Plastic Crisis: Milk

My regular grocery store only had milk in plastic jugs and plastic lined cartons. That is not good since milk has enough fat to make the chemicals in the plastic more likely to leach into the milk. Recently by daughter noticed that there was an option of milk in glass bottles at her grocery store and I am trying it! There is a deposit on the glass bottle to encourage people to return them…and buy the milk again!

The milk is from a dairy located about an hour from Springfield MO. They use low temperature vat pasteurization; I read that many people with lactose intolerance can drink the milk without problems…and I am pleasantly surprised that it is true for me.  

While I don’t know the plastics that might be in the dairy processing, at least the packaging of the milk is in a reused glass bottle and the ability to drink it without taking a Lactaid is just another benefit. The only downside is that it is a bit more expensive; for me the benefits outweigh that expense.