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Milking it for all its worth: sourcing plastic packaging free alternatives

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title = "Milking it for all its worth: sourcing plastic packaging free alternatives",
abstract = "For some of us milk drinkers (plant-based or diary), the dwindling supply of milk presented us with a choice – do without, find a plastic-free alternative, or make your own.Conversations ranged from “well it is only a month, I can do without” to the unbearable prospect of not being able to enjoy a cup of tea or coffee with milk (and of course, for those of us that did not drink milk this was not a problem). The path of least resistance seemed to be to replace plastic milk bottle with glass, which for some represented a return to happy memories of childhood when the milk was waiting on the doorstep every morning (and a race against the birds pecking the foil lids). Others managed to source their milk from a local vending machine, where bottles cost a euro and could be refilled.",
author = "Alison Stowell and Maria Piacentini and Matteo Saltalippi and John Hardy and James Cronin and Charlotte Hadley and Linda Hendry and Alexandros Skandalis and Savita Verma",
year = "2021",
month = jul,
day = "13",
language = "English",
publisher = "Lancaster University",

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AU - Stowell, Alison

AU - Piacentini, Maria

AU - Saltalippi, Matteo

AU - Hardy, John

AU - Cronin, James

AU - Hadley, Charlotte

AU - Hendry, Linda

AU - Skandalis, Alexandros

AU - Verma, Savita

PY - 2021/7/13

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