Questions about Bagged Milk

Was I ever excited to get a comment on the milk in a bag blog post, and it had questions!  So here's a bit more information for all of you.

By "clip" do you mean that you clip the corner of the bag as your picture shows or do you mean that after you open the corner a little you then fold it and put a paper clip over the corner?

When we buy milk, we buy a big bag which contains three smaller clear bags of milk.  The contents of those three bags equal 4 liters of milk.  When you get home, you take one of the bags and put it in the special milk pitcher that you have.  You cut the corner off with scissors (or a special snipping tool you can buy, but scissors work just fine) and then pour.  We then fold the plastic over a few times and use a clip - a chip clip or binder clip or whatever kind of clip is in the picture below - to close the bag.

Our skim milk pitcher (I can't get it to rotate).

Do normal Canadians empty the bag into a pitcher?

Bagged milk isn't everywhere in Canada, but normal Ontarians do not.  They put the bag in, cut the slit, and leave it like that until the milk is gone.

Thanks for the questions and the comment, BBS!

What I don't understand is why milk in a bag exists anyways.  You can't recycle the bags, whereas you can recycle jugs and cartons.  I'm assuming they're a bit of a hassle to move around, as I've seen many a bags which leaked in the grocery store and had one leak in my stroller basket.  And if it were cheaper to have in bags than in jugs or cartons, then why wouldn't all milk be in bags?

Perhaps I'll do some research and answer some of those questions in a future post.  Until then, if you haven't already voted, please do!