orangewave:

getting real damn tired of having people yelling “LO OL WTF ARE MILK BAGS LOL” 

 

mediocre-misadventures:

This is disgusting and you should be ashamed.

 

orangewave:

calm down friend jesus christ there is nothing wrong with it, it saves space and it produces less garbage and is easy to recycle

 

grouchythefish:

you do have a pretty ugly milk jug tho

 

izzy-sukeban-jones:

if you cut the tip off, how do you seal it when you save it for later?

 

bakamic:

^^^ Seriously. How do you store it after you open it?

 

orangewave:

Step one: step two: 

 

note-a-bear:

This is still a problem, because if you don’t have a cover for that jug, your milk’s gonna get all kinds of funky smells.

If you’re gonna use bags for milk, why not do the bags with spouts that soda machines use for soda???

Like, a spout just saves so much needless stress.

 

blue-author:

No, this is part of the “less waste” thing. If you can taste every single thing you’ve got in your fridge whenever you take a drink of milk, then you won’t have to use a piece of paper to write a shopping list.

 

slepaulica:

just buy the half litre bags and drink it out of the bag. that’s what i do.

Less waste? Bagged milk causes more waste. It’s a waste of plastic (unless you can recycle the inner bags and just nobody told me, in which case it’d be no more or less a waste than cartons and jugs*), and it’s a waste of milk. Bagged milk (even unopened) goes bad much faster than milk in cartons or jugs (even opened). The milk manufacturers will tell you it lasts just as long, but they are lying. (Do not buy bagged milk with less than a week left before its sell-by date, and exercise extreme caution when drinking it: it will probably have gone bad already.)

(The really weird part is the financial incentive for consumers to use this plastic-and-milk-wasting method. 4L of bagged milk costs only slightly more (absolute, not per-litre) than 2L of carton. I have sometimes seen (not on sale) 4L of bagged milk for two cents less than one 2L carton. Therefore, per litre-actually-drunk, buying a 3-pack of bags and throwing one of them away is cheaper than buying a 2L carton and finishing it.)

*They do not have plastic gallon jugs in Canada, as far I can tell. I miss jugs.

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