About plastic milk bottles

HDPE milk bottles are the most popular form of milk packaging in the UK with around three billion bottles used every year.

Within the last twenty years, many consumers have moved away from doorstep delivery of milk in one pint glass bottles. While the doorstep delivery service is still highly valued, reaching 3.5 million households every day, 90% of us now obtain our milk in other ways - mainly via the supermarket.

We're also buying our milk in larger quantities. The most popular container size today is the four pint plastic bottle and this simply can't be made successfully from glass. HDPE plastic offers a lightweight and durable alternative to other milk packaging - and it's other great benefit is that it is 100% recyclable.