PICTURED: Dairy owner Adam Fleming hopes vending machines will revolutionise the milk industry…
If you didn’t see footage of Adam buying milk from a vending machine on BBC 1’s Countryfile last night, it’s worth reading about it in the Oxford Mail. Apparently the machine, which is owned and operated by specialist milk producer, Nell’s Dairy, stands adjacent to the Kingham Plough gastro-pub. Chef / Owner Emily Watkins said customers and residents ‘loved the vending machine.’
We’d love to know who manufactured the machine and if there are any others in circulation. Wouldn’t it be better if we bought milk using our own containers, much as they did in days of yore? Much as they do now, apparently, is parts of France? How many fewer plastic bottles would be required, how many fewer would we have to inflict on the environment? How many fewer rhetorical questions could we ask in just one paragraph?
Thoughts please, dear readers. What other items of packaging could be eliminated by vending? Coffee beans, sugar… It gets the grey matter working.
