Milk is one of the main foods in our family and probably in many others. We buy it every day. It is convenient when the milk is packed in plastic bottle or cardboard box. In this case, it is stable on the shelf of the refrigerator and do not fall, like soft plastic bags.
But which packaging for milk, cardboard or plastic, it is better for the environment? Since the garbage in our town basically is not sorted for recycling, but taken to the landfill, perhaps it makes sense to look for the answer in the rate of decomposition of cardboard and plastic.
The decomposition rate of cardboard is 1 year and the decomposition rate of the plastic is over 100 years. Here we go! The conclusion is obvious: the best package for milk is a cardboard.
Our grocery stores always have a very large range of milk and other dairy products (sour cream, yogurt, cottage cheese, whey) in cardboard boxes. Therefore, the citizens will be very easy to follow my advice and their environmental awareness and to buy dairy products in packaging that will cause minimal damage to nature during recycling.
Good work, Ivan! Very interesting and useful. Good luck in your project!
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