Present Day
In some locations, silver, red, blue, yellow or striped aluminium tops on today's bottles indicate the fat content. Unpasteurised is green-topped. Other dairies use other color designations. Bottles may also be marked or stamped with the name of the dairy.
Modern dairies may also use refillable plastic bottles, as well as plastic bottle tops.
In the United Kingdom, milk sold to the door is mainly measured in Imperial pints (but labelled 568ml), because the glass bottles are 'returnable', which means they were excluded from metrication. Often, in supermarkets they are sold in pints but labelled with their metric equivalent (568ml). Quantities larger than a pint are generally sold in metric units or multiples of a pint.
With lesser milk consumption, milk in Hong Kong is sold in both glass and plastic bottles.
Orange juice is also sold in doorstep deliveries in the same style of bottle used for milk. Typically these have an orange top.
In some countries, it is common to buy milk in a milk bag
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