🍼 Bottle

Bottle is a glass or plastic container with a neck for bottling milk. The milk bottle is the familiar container for packing milk. In the past, the milkman went from house to house and poured milk into his customers' jugs. From the second half of the 19th century, milk began to be sold in glass bottles, which were later returned. They were brought right to the door.

The first patents for glass milk containers appeared in the United States in the 1870s and 1880s. People tried different tops back then: wooden stoppers, glass caps and tin lids. In Great Britain, glass bottles became common by the 1920s. They were washed and used again many times.

Since the 1960s, in many countries glass has been pushed out by cartons and plastic bottles made of polyethylene. Plastic bottles are lighter and do not break, and they can be recycled. Common sizes are the pint, the quart or the litre, depending on the country. Glass bottles are coming back at small dairy farms.