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People are switching from plastic to glass milk bottles in the UK.
Most dairy businesses have reported a rise in sales, including a return to the traditional delivery of milk in glass bottles to customers’ doorsteps. This trend has surged in the first part of 2018 as people limit their plastic use. Since the 1990s, milk delivery services have continuously declined. According to DairyUK, the latest delivery figures are one million milk pints per day – about 3% of all milk sales. That includes glass and plastic deliveries (the figure includes both).
The regions that will host clinical training for the University of Waikato's new medical school from 2028 have been confirmed, alongside a new nationwide approach to clinical placements for medical students.
The bumpy road you travel on teachs you a lot, believes Don Watson. And that’s the message he and wife Kirsten, supreme winners of the Auckland Ballance Farm Environment Awards, aim to pass on to their three sons.
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Fieldays officially opened yesterday at Mystery Creek, with thousands of visitors headed through the gates to be among the first to experience the agricultural event.
