In North America, we have thick plastic yogurt containers (come to think of it, we have thick yogurt, too) that one could use over and over and over again (except almost no one does). I don't understand why we don't do it like they do in the UK, where they have these really thin plastic containers that are sheathed with cardboard labels. It seems to me that there is overall less waste and both container and label can be recycled.
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One of the Free-Ride offspring (which one? who can tell; it was last week) brought home a plant grown from seed as part of a school project.
"We planted the seeds in yogurt containers," said whichever child it was, "except they didn't have yogurt in them anymore, just dirt."
Usually when you hear about the rapid evolution of bacteria, the story is typically some grim tale of antibiotic resistance or the emergence of some pathogen once restricted to animals.
“My love for you would blot out the sun like a cloud made out of yogurt. I hope you brought a spoon.” -Jarod Kintz
Or, you get a glass jar and milk and make your own yogurt.
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Yogurt
No plastic whatsoever involved.
Cottage cheese containers have moved to the thinner plastic with cardboard label, so maybe the yogurt containers will follow in the same direction. (Though I suspect that the two-part containers are slightly more expensive to manufacture.)
That's what I have been thinking. Why do almost no one do it? Because it has been useful for me.
The yoghurt containers in Japan are made of pretty thin plastic too. No paper labels though - the container's opaque and printed upon.
BTW - we wouldn`t call such a label 'cardboard' in the UK, just 'paper'. Is this another Transatlantic difference?
In my town, in CT, where recycling is close to a fetish, wide-mouth plastic containers (such as yoghurt is packaged in) are not considered recyclable. I have never gotten a straight answer as to the reasoning behind this.
Making your own is easy, but if you do a lot of Indian cooking it sometimes is inconvenient given the time to prepare, so we buy a pint or a quart sometimes.
Any ideas as to why wide-mouth jars aren't acceptable?
I used to reuse yogurt containers, until the manufacturers replaced their covers with bits of tinfoil. Now I only buy yogurt in large containers, with proper covers, and keep the container after I'm done.
I miss the little containers, though. They were useful.
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I love yogurt so much that I want to make my own video game about it. I think I'll go get started on that now.
http://www.gamesparkonline.com/