Source：China Plastic Online

Dairy Crest, Britain’s biggest dairy producer recently announced that the traditional milk bottles will be completely abandoned. In order to better address consumer preference, the company will switch to plastic bottles.

After conducting market research, Dairy Crest confirmed that consumers prefer to use lightweight plastic milk bottles, as compared to the heavy, breakable glass bottles.The company decided to close its glass bottling dairy in Hanworth, England two years later. This marks Dairy Crest’s complete abandon on the traditional glass bottling diary.

In Esher, the UK dairy tycoons have already started to adopt portable HDPE plastic bottles since early 2012. Dairy Crest believes that it is an irreversible trend that plastics are replacing glass in dairy bottling From 1975 to 2012, the proportion of milk put into glass bottles has fallen from 94% in 1975 to just 4% in 2012.

Most plastic bottles are made from renewable raw materials which can be recycled.Because of their light weight and recyclable features, plastic bottles have grown to over half of the dairy bottling market in recent years.

Currently, the production at the company’s three plastic bottling dairies at Chadwell Heath, Foston and Severnside will be stepped-up in plastic bottling to meet the demand from residential customers.The glass bottling dairy in Hanworth is expected to remain operational for around a further two years.