My grocer carries glass bottles of milk. Surely you can find it somewhere.....
Glass Milk Bottles Back on Line
Independent dairies have found a classic solution to a classic problem - how to differentiate their products
HAGERSVILLE - For older people it's a taste of nostalgia, for younger people it's a novelty.
For some of the remaining independent dairies in Ontario, it has proved an unlikely means to survive - milk in glass bottles .
For decades, this was the only way to get mass-marketed milk to the kitchen table. A generation ago cartons, jugs and plastic bags came along to push the milk bottle out of the supermarket cooler.
But glass never entirely died out. The appeal is simple - some consumers swear milk tastes better from a glass bottle, and looks fresher too. Unlike plastic or cardboard, glass doesn't alter the true taste of milk .
"Somehow it just tastes fresher," says Julie Morris, of Harrington, Ont., one of a niche market of Canadian consumers who prefer to buy milk in bottles . ...cont'd
http://www.ecologycenter.org/iptf/recycling/Milkinglass.htmlDairies using Glass Bottles for Milk in US
Would you like to know why you should buy milk in glass bottles?
Read "Get Plastic Out Of Your Diet" from Living Nutrition magazine 16nov03
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Oberweis Dairy - Aurora, IL
Schultz Farm - South Lancaster, MA
Shaw Farm Dairy - Dracut, MA
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http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Dairies-Glass-Bottles-Milk.htm