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    why do canadians use plastic bags for milk?

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    Milk bags are common in several countries and regions of the world, including Eastern Canada. They were also common in Bulgaria and other Balkan countries during the Soviet bloc period, but their popularity diminished after 1989. Declining popularity in this region is attributed to the lower shelf appeal of the milk bags compared to others emerging at the time such as Tetra Pak and plastic bottles.[citation needed] A resurgence of milk bags is beginning in Britain amid concerns that plastic bottles aren't being recycled. Milk bags were also used in Australia (Greater Shepparton, Victoria), in the late 1990s, distributed by Shepparton-based dairy company Ducats. Some dairies in the United States used the bags in the 1980s, but today are confined mainly to regional convenience store chains with in-house dairies such as Kwik Trip in the Upper Midwest and other boutique dairies.


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    Colleen

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    Plastic cows?
    country bumpkin

    Moderator
    MOOOOOOOOO!

    I dont care what package it comes in but I sure do like the milk chocolate cows make!

    bowlesy

    glass is so unfriendly but the memory still has an old sort of warmth.

    We've had plastic milk bags for years.


    They're convenient and reduce the 


    amount of hard plastic needed for


    the job.

    Paper bags always leak!

    doolittle

    wax them!
    Dardaigh

    LMAO! Too funny. :)

    i must be getting very old ,i still remember the glass milk bottles and the sound of the milk float in the early morning fondly.

    doolittle

    Yes, I remember the bottles being delivered door to door. I can still find glass bottles of organic milk- yummy!


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