Home milk delivery

Home milk delivery and recycling

Having your milk delivered to the doorstep can play a geat role in your efforts to recycle materials. Whilst plastic containers used for the sale of milk in shops create more bulk for your bin and add to landfill problems; the glass bottles typically used in home milk deliveries are much more friendly to the environment. On average, each bottle can be rewashed and used 20 times, before it is of a grade no longer suitable for delivery. Glass is one of the few materials which is totally recyclable, so when the bottle reaches the end of its useful life, it can be simply melted down to produce the materials for a replacement.

Home milk delivery and the local environment

Milk deliveries also makes sense when considering the environmental impact from the required transportation. What better than to have a single (sometimes electic powered) vehicle bring regular supplies direct to the front door, saving numerous short local journeys by car to the local convenience store or supermarket?

Your milkman is a local businessman who sources milk from local farms and dairies. From production to consumption, in terms of food miles, this one of the most energy efficient means of obtaining one of our staple foods.

When opting to have my milk delivered to the door, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the cost of my preferred skimmed organic milk was the same as that at the local supermarket. If you can find a local supplier, what is there to stop you from switching to them?

Benefits of home milk delivery

• Convenience
• Kinder to the environment
• Less need for landfill
• Supporting local business