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To: Milk bottling industry and retailers of milk
Plastic and foil laminated seal inside milk bottle tops
To stop puttting a seal under the bottle cap. France sells milk in similar recyclable plastic containers and there is no leakage when held upside down and shaken. For the elderly it is sometimes difficult to remove the seal. If the retailer wishes to prevent people from tampering with the container before it is sold surely it is a simple matter to devise some other way of telling whether this is the case with perhaps a small paper tab connecting the top and side. The amount of plastic seals which are discarded are over about 540,000,000 a year so adding to the world's waste plastic.
Why is this important?
The efforts to reduce global warming are hampered by actions such as putting unnecessary plastic seals under milk bottles. 1. It is futile to prevent leakage since the bottles do not leak once the seal has been removed and the cap securely replaced. I have never succeeded in losing one drop of milk even though I have tried to by swinging the bottle around. 2. To prevent tampering surely another method should be used which doesn't involve the use of plastic. 3. It is difficult for the elderly and those with arthritic hands to remove the seal.
