Comments on: Soy Milk & my letter to White Wave, makers of Silk

By: musesum

musesum — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:07:00 +0000

After some searching on “Gable-top” I found that San Francisco accepts these containers, as per: http://eco-chick.com/2008/06/24/recycling-does-a-milk-carton-good/

Before composting, I cut off the plastic top.

Cheers,

By: Beth in the Fake Plastic Fish Tank

Beth in the Fake Plastic Fish Tank — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 09:36:00 +0000

I just found powdered soy milk at Rainbow Grocery in San Francisco. Don’t know if it will be as bad as the powdered cow’s milk I grew up with, but it smells like soy milk and it costs way less than the wet kind. Why pay for water and packaging, right?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:52:00 +0000

Hey! You know, you can make your own soy milk at home for pennies. I hear it’s easy-breezy with a soy milk maker, such as Soya Joy. (Me, I make rice milk w/no special equipment– that’s super easy.)

Judith

By: ken ott

ken ott — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:51:00 +0000

I'm annoyed at these plastic caps too. I think the companies that made them are selling them cheaply and people like the "convenience."

People in this country don't care about recycling if it's too inconvenient, so unlike us who toss those into the recycle bin and toss the carton into compost bins, most people don't.

When I lived in Japan, there were NO plastic lids on carton liquids like milk, coffee milk, juice. And they have *extensive* recycling for these things!!

At schools for instance, kids open and flatten their milk boxes and these are dried and recycled. ALso, every supermarket has recycle bins for not only steel, but glass, aluminum, PET (ANY plastics), paper, and waxy cartons.

So if you want to see comprehensive recycling, visit Japan! Or India.