Talk:Milk crate

China
The part where it states the crates end up in China is wrong. I read the source article (number 1 )and it does not mention china at all. so i deleted the sentence. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.231.223.196 (talk) 07:19, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Legal crates
Some people get their crates legally. One source is containerstore.com, though those don't seem to be as sturdy as the ones used by stores. (By the way, if anyone finds a legal source for strong milk crates, please let me know.) Jobarts-Talk 06:37, 13 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Stores such as Wal-Mart and Office Max have been selling make-shift File Crates for some time; it's possible to find file crates that are a comparable sturdiness to milkcrates, although it's also possible to find cheap quality filecrates. Mjf3719 (talk) 13:17, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

vinyl records
12" vinyl records will not fit in a milk crate. There are other plastic boxes that they will fit in, however.
 * They fit in the old crates. Around the same time (at least here) as milk switched to metric, they switched from the old, rectangular crates to the square ones we get today. One rumour has it that this switch was partially motivated by people stealing the old crates to use for album storage, and the new design would preclude this function. -- RealGrouchy 03:25, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

This should totally be in the article. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 11:47, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Milk crates furniture?
Why is the first picture thumb of milk crate furniture? It seems a little off topic. The first photo should be of a milk crate and only a milk crate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blacklemon67 (talk • contribs) 23:22, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

I agree!DaveDodgy (talk) 07:12, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Why no deposit on milk crates?
Why is there no deposit on milk crates? If there was a deposit on milk crates and someone used them for another purpose but transporting milk the milk factory wouldn't be harmed because it could just buy/manufacture another milk crate with the deposit...Similar crates for bottles do have a deposit in Europe, so that's why I wonder why they don't in the US--Soylentyellow (talk) 08:18, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Wrongful disposal of crates
I often see crates thrown away in shops commercial bins (Dumpsters, etc.) And there's nothing wrong with them. Why is this?

Also, people often put out rubbish for their council to collect (often called hard rubbish or council cleanup, not the regular weekly rubbish collection), and this will sometimes include milk crates. Which they have no right to put out. The council seems to pick them up. Are they breaking the law too ?DaveDodgy (talk) 07:16, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

History
'Tis a pity there's no history here of the ubiquitous Milk Crate. I have a fine example of the old square metal ones complete with its dairy's embossed label. When did plastic replace metal? John C Kay (talk) 20:08, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I've got two wooden ones that also nest with metal and plastic ones. I think stainless steel replaced wood in the 1950s and was succeeded by LDPE in the 70s but have no ref.  Jim.henderson (talk) 16:32, 24 January 2011 (UTC)