A dairy company has joined nation-wide efforts to reduce the amount of plastic it uses by using glass milk bottles.
Prime Minister Theresa May has committed to eliminating all avoidable plastic waste by 2042 in the UK, as stated in the government’s much-awaited environmental plan for the next 25-years.
And now Cotteswold Dairy, based in Gloucestershire, is joining in the effort to crack down on plastic waste in its dairies, by using glass bottles for its milk.
The bottles can be rinsed and reused on an average of 50 trips. The dairy said milk stored in glass bottles "tastes better", too.
Since the Dairy started 80 years ago, its milk has always been delivered in reusable glass bottles, and has now urged others to do the same.
It said using glass bottles is a "very positive" way to start reducing plastic consumption.
'Important identity'
Roseanne McEwan, marketing manager at the Cotteswold Dairy said it is an "important identity" for the company.
She explained: "Even when the supermarkets and bigger milk suppliers started selling milk in plastic bottles, it is an important identity for us to keep producing milk is glass bottles and it remains popular.
"Many consumers care about the environment and this is just one of the many ways, that we can reduce plastic use. We are bias but milk also tastes so much better out of glass than plastic."
Earlier this month, Prime Minister May said: "We look back in horror at some of the damage done to our environment in the past and wonder how anyone could have thought that, for example, dumping toxic chemicals, untreated, into rivers was ever the right thing to do.
"In years to come, I think people will be shocked at how today we allow so much plastic to be produced needlessly. In the UK alone, the amount of single-use plastic wasted every year would fill 1,000 Royal Albert Halls."
