It’s funny how
we’re often told that such and such a thing will be obsolete by a certain date
and yet somehow it endures. Vinyl was a recent one; a seemingly moribund format
that has enjoyed quite a revival in recent years. Now one of the most
surprising rebounds turns out to be….milk bottles! You wot? Yes, milk bottles. For the past twenty
years people in the UK have increasingly bought their milk in plastic
containers from shops. It’s cheaper and more convenient because you can just
chuck the container away in the recycling bin afterwards. However it now turns
out that far too many of these plastic containers end up in the sea becoming a
pollutant. None other than Sir David Attenborough, the nation’s wisest man warned
in Blue Planet 2 about the harm
caused by disposable plastic products and this has helped fuel large numbers of
people reverting to having their milk delivered in glass bottles. It’s not just
Sir Dave of course, the trend back towards glass bottles was already underway
due to an increased awareness of the environmental dangers of plastic
containers.
