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of the Phoenix area. But Danzeisen foresees a time in the not-too-distant future when a company with more resources attempts to bring home delivery of milk back.
For Danzeisen, who is in his late 30s, drinking milk bottled in glass was a new experience.
“The milk tastes great when it comes from a glass bottle,’’ he said.
Danzeisen set about finding loans — he declined to say how much — acquiring a site for the plant, learning the ins and outs of the bottling business and, perhaps most daunting of all, finding equipment.
The advent of other lighter containers — cartons in the 1930s and plastics jugs in the 1960s — had squeezed glass bottles off the shelves decades ago. There are a few glass-bottling plants left in the United States, but some of the necessary machinery is no long made.