For some months this was the case, and a few of us bit the bullet, paying a premium for the privilege to do so. Before long only grapefruit and orange juice were available in the old familiar 600ml glass bottle. This relic is now decades obsolete. I still rage about it.
A few years ago I watched a documentary that followed the recycling journey of this plastic vessel. To add insult to environmental injury, NZ was sending mountains of these used empty milk containers over to China, where an elderly woman sat in a giant warehouse, removing the blue lids by bare hands. No gloves, no mask, no protective clothing, and earning slave wages. In 2016 we may or may not still be adding the food miles to this insipid industry while our water ways choke and groan and our green house emissions continue to be an international disgrace.
Plastic must have been seen as an amazing product when first on the market but we know better now, it is hard to avoid it though as more and more products move from glass to plastic. And now we have as these instant little pots for coffee and even little plastic balls in our toothpaste.
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