Milk bag – Wikipedia

Plastic luggage that include milk

A milk bag is a plastic bag that accommodates milk. Often one of many corners is lower off to permit for pouring, and the bag is saved in a pitcher or jug.

A typical milk bag accommodates roughly 1 L (1.8 imp pt) of milk in South America, Iran, Israel, and continental European nations, whereas in Canada they include 1+1⁄3 litres (2.3 imp pt), and in India, 0.5 L (0.9 imp pt).^[1]

Within the Baltic rim countries, e.g., Estonia, and a few Jap European nations, the same luggage may be seen used for packaging yogurt or kefir.

By nation and area[edit]

Canada[edit]

In Canada, earlier than the late Sixties, milk was packaged in heavy, reusable Imperial unit glass milk bottles and later cardboard cartons and plastic jugs. In 1967, DuPont, utilizing European tools, launched plastic luggage to retailer and promote milk. With Canada’s conversion to the metric system within the Nineteen Seventies, bottles, jugs, and cartons needed to be thrown out, re-designed, and manufactured in metric items, whereas milk bag packaging machines might simply be resized.^[2][3][4]

The milk luggage discovered favour with the home dairy trade, being lighter and fewer fragile than glass bottles. Nevertheless, the patron public most popular plastic jugs for years, however largely accepted the brand new containers in elements of Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes within the Nineteen Seventies.^[5] Regulation in Ontario that required retailers to gather a deposit on milk jugs, however not luggage, additionally motivated the observe.^[6]

Milk luggage are bought in elements of Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes, however not broadly bought in western Canada, in Newfoundland and Labrador, or the territories.^[5]

Israel[edit]

In Israel, milk in a bag is the commonest sort of packaging for milk. They turned the usual type of milk packaging within the Sixties, with the discontinuation of glass bottles. In Israel, the milk bag is a regulated product, which implies that its value is managed by the state. Subsequently, there are value variations between the milk luggage and the opposite options obtainable for advertising milk — plastic bottles or milk cartons. As a result of value variations, a relationship was noticed between the socioeconomic standing of the patron and the kind of milk container that they typically bought. The upper the socio-economic standing of the purchaser, the extra possible they’re to purchase milk in cartons fairly than in luggage, regardless of the upper value of cartons. Based mostly on these variations, Blue Sq. Community created a option to measure the socioeconomic standing of an space based mostly on the gross sales ratio of milk cartons versus bagged milk. The upper the ratio of the previous to the latter, the upper the standing of the area in Israel.^[7] For non secular Jews, opening a bag of milk could be thought-about problematic on Shabbat, as a result of the motion requires chopping. Eli Yishai, Israel’s former minister of inner affairs, used empty milk luggage within the Knesset as props to complain about price-hikes in the price of milk.^[8]

South America[edit]

Milk luggage are additionally generally utilized in Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.^[9]

United Kingdom[edit]

In the UK, Sainsbury’s started a pilot experiment on distributing milk in luggage in 2008 along side Dairy Crest.^[10] It was initially focused at 35 shops on the similar value as a daily 2-imperial-pint (1.1 L) plastic bottle of milk.^[11] The product was expanded nationwide in 2010, at which level the luggage retailed at a reduced value in comparison with conventional containers,^[12][13] however stopped in early 2015.^[14]

United States[edit]

DuPont launched milk luggage to American faculties in 1989, and by 1993 3 million pouches a day have been being served in 24 states.^[15] Nevertheless, the recognition of them waned. There seems to solely be one, verified college district in Omaha, NE utilizing bagged milk as not too long ago as 2015.^[16]

Advantages[edit]

The principal advantages of bagged milk are economic system and freshness. For producers, it’s simpler to range portion dimension when sealing luggage than cartons, in addition to reducing the price of packaging. Milk luggage additionally take up much less house within the rubbish. For shoppers, luggage sometimes enable for smaller portion sizes. This theoretically reduces the chance of spoilage, in addition to the house and placement of storage within the fridge.^[17]

Environmental issues[edit]

Whereas milk luggage use much less plastic than normal plastic bottles or jugs, empty luggage are sometimes not accepted for recycling when combined with different plastics.^[18] In Canada, the place recycling companies are municipally or regionally managed, milk luggage could not all the time be recycled. In some municipalities milk luggage are required to be discarded as rubbish^[19] and in others they’re recyclable.^[20]

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