When we lived in St. Louis, we took advantage of Oberweis Dairy's home delivery service to get milk and dairy products delivered to our door. We loved it! The milk comes in glass containers, which we would put out for the delivery driver to pick up when they were empty. That really cut down on our use of plastic. Yes, plastic can be recyled, but it can only be recycled a limited number of times. This article says

It's a common misconception that most plastics can be recycled many times over. ... In practice, the majority of recycled plastics are only recycled once or twice before being finally disposed of in landfill or incineration. ... The limits to repeated mechanical recycling occur because of thermal breakdown/destruction in processing (which can degrade the quality of material) and the mixing or contamination of plastic polymer types means secondary plastics can be of low economic or practical value.

In contrast, glass containers can be washed and reused, and the glass itself can be re-melted endlessly with no loss of quality.

On top of this, it's just fun to wake up with fresh milk on your doorstep. To me, the milk tastes fresher, and it makes me feel closer to the farmer and the cows. This more than makes up for the slightly higher prices.

Here in the UK, we get home delivery from The Modern Milkman, and we still love it! My one complaint is that they only sell milk in pint bottles, not quarts, as Oberweis does. But it's not so bad -- our fridge is small, and it would be hard to fit quart bottles into it.

I don't find any home milk delivery services in northern Michigan, but hopefully one will be up and running by the time we move there. 🥛🐄