It's not your imagination: Beverage containers for milk, soda and water have gotten harder to open in recent years because their plastic screw top caps have been shortened to save plastic.

Most plastic food containers have a triangle on ... approved for direct food contact (except for recycled polyethylene milk bottles), so this should not be an issue.” Not all experts agree ...

Seventeen out of 20 dairy businesses contacted by BBC News have seen a rise in sales of glass milk bottles to homes and businesses amid concern over plastic waste. Some have seen existing ...

For example, the supermarket is looking at options to replace milk bottles, one of the shop's largest sources of plastic packaging. This could mean refillable bottles, returnable milk bottles or ...

Environmental factors are also something to consider. While plastic is recyclable, glass milk bottles ultimately last longer ...