I always spill the contents of Tetra pack anyway. So annoying.

Do you remember they (Migros?) used to sell milk in bags?

I tried it once for the novelty. You were meant to put the full litre bag into a litre plastic jug and snip off the corner. Never. Again.

Found it.

They sold milk like that in Germany, it was an absolute nightmare.

That would definitely be a giant mess. Oy!

Nowadays they are usually screw-top, but again that's plastic.

Only place I have seen glass milk bottles is the Edeka store in Waldshut, over the order. Volg has the tetra milk containers.

oh yes!! Much faffing about. Remember them well.

We also once had smaller pyramid shaped tetra packs as kids witk a kind of ovaltine in it and you needed a straw to drink from it.

Thanks Sandgrounder, had a good trip down memory lane due to your posts yx

Yes, at that time I strived to be a 'real' Swiss. Migros also used to sell the containers. Was devastated when my attempts at being a real Swiss didn't work quite the way I'd expected.

Never found a good use for the container either, and they were both discarded pretty quickly.

If you'd like to buy the freshest milk at the most ecological way possible (and cheaper as well), check out if a local farmer has a "Brunimat" (automatic milk dispenser) installed.

Talking a stroll there makes the farmer having more money in his pocket, me having more money in my pocket (vs. shop-bought), and zero "fresh" packaging needed for the milk (reusable glas bottle)

We quite liked them. Much easier to store in the crowded fridge. 1/2 went in our Nespresso milk frother and the other into a glass container.

Funnels are wonderful inventions, I tell you.

Schneider Umwelt have just opened a recycling centre in Baar though it's closer to the Sihlbrugg roundabout where you can recycle TetraPak et al - plus household electrical items and a whole host of rubbish one accumulates and doesn't know what to do with - all for free or a small cost like 50 rappen for 1kg of wood.

Open Mon-Fri 07:00 - 18:00 & Sat 08:00 - 16:00

https://umweltservice.ch/recycling/r...g-center/baar/

My husband says he had those for the school milk when he was a kid, I only remember the small glass bottles with the foil tops that we used to poke the straws through when it was our turn to be milk monitor.

They still use the pyramids for coffee milk in South Africa.

We had schoolmilk in those


And the plastic milk bags in the 60-ies, what a mess that was

I remember those milk bags from the late 80s and early 90s!

And they still exist today:

https://produkte.migros.ch/vollmilch-past-beutel

Apparently called "Schlauchmilch" in German..

Mmmm, doesn't that sound delicious?

Had to revive that thread, recently went to recycle my collected tetrapacks (Getränkekartons) at the Aldi here.....apparently they NO LONGER collect them.

Just plastic bottles of all kinds

Yeah, found that at the one in Murten the other week. Took them to the Aldi in Matran instead as theirs was still working. No idea how long for though. I wonder why they stopped collecting them?

Aldi has stopped collecting Tetra Paks. Depending on your location that might be better or less well marked.


According to Aldi, the scheme worked very well from a technical perspective, however the volume of Tetra Paks collected was much higher than anticipated, and took too much of the capacity of their distribution staff. 70% of the Tetra Paks were from other retailers and they say it would only be feasible if all the retailers operated a similar scheme.


https://www.heutefuermorgen.ch/umwel...jektstopp.html


There are still a few places where you can recycle Tetra Paks: https://www.getraenkekarton.ch/

They announced it back in May sometime, they have stopped collecting them in all stores as from the end of June.

It was for a trial period only and they were overwhelmed by the quantities. They were the only retailer to offer the service and it was unsustainable for them to continue in the long term.