Newer refrigerators will hold the 1 gallon milk containers. If they became 4 liters, they would have to be a bit taller, but the other dimensions would have to stay the same or they wouldn�t fit in the shipping boxes or in our refrigerators.
Carleton -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pat Naughtin Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 16:04 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:32470] Re: Milk containers Dear John, The conversion is: 4 litres = 1.0566882 US gallons so 4 litres is about 6�% more milk than a gallon in the USA. You might hardly notice the difference in size but it means that the milk industry would have to use a new container � you can't just fill the old container a little more as 6 % is probably too much for that. Another strategy is to rethink the size and design of the milk containers and how they are handled. For example, milk in Australia comes in 1 litre, 2 litre, and 3 litre containers and these are all designed to fit in the door shelves of modern refrigerators. This means that the milk is readily accessible for coffee and milk is rarely kept in the body of the refrigerator. I have also seen a 5 litre container here but they are rare. Cheers, Pat Naughtin Geelong, Australia 61 3 5241 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metricationmatters.com on 2005-03-14 07.42, john mercer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello I have a question. If the US dairy industry changed the containers of > milk from 1 gal to 4 liters does anyone know how much larger approximately the > 4 l container wood be? I have seen the US gal container and the 4 liter > container we use in Canada and there doesn't seem to be much difference in > size. If the dary industry went to 4 l containers people would probably call > them gallons for a long time. People still call the 4 l containers gallons in > Canada sometimes, and it has been 25 years since the Canadian dairy industry > changed. >
