Bottled milk
Sir, —On a recent trip back to West Germany, I thought my eyes had fooled me; there on the shelf of a grocer was milk in glass bottles. I thought such luxuries had disappeared a generation ago, but my sister explained that, for a premium of a mere 50c a bottle, Germans could now enjoy milk in glass (though they must return the bottles). I was simply too ashamed to explain that, though in New Zealand we have cheap bottled milk homedelivered daily, we are complacently sitting back while industry slowly persuades us that we will be better off drinking it out of plastic or cardboard. The New Zealand dairy business, abetted by the packaging conglomerates, has already got rid of bottled milk in Gisborne (“the flood,” you know), and Canterbury Dairy Farmers are promoting non-returnable packaging as the saviour of their industry. What they are promoting is thousands of tonnes of non-biodegradable rubbish. — Yours, etc., MARGIT DUTTON. June 26, 1988.
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Press, 29 June 1988, Page 16
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