Plastic milk crates are "green," but not when used like this. Each milk crate makes thousands of trips to and from stores with some lasting more than 20 years. They are very sustainable packaging when they are allowed to do their job and not removed from the milk delivery system for other "duties as assigned."
A Kentucky man was arrested for stealing nearly half a million dollars worth of industrial shipping containers -- approximately 10 truckloads -- from a Shelbyville, Kentucky warehouse.