Milk: plastic or paper container
The conundrum of which milk to buy- plastic or paper container. Certainly, reusable glass is the best as far as energy consumed but glass isn't always available or isn't always handy. Using your paper milk container as a compost container then composting the entire package works only if you compost. Here in San Francisco, the compost is picked up by the garbage company which makes composting food waste here easy but I know that in other parts of the Country it is not so convenient to compost. So if you can not find re-usable glass and you don't compost the next best container to use, using the least amount of energy, is plastic. The plastic used in milk containers is easy & cheap to make and recycle.



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