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This is a list of countries ordered by annual per capita consumption of milk, excluding butter. Rank Change in rank 2013/2007 ... Germany: 258.7 247.24 14 9
Milk crates are square or rectangular interlocking boxes that are used to transport milk and other products from dairies to retail establishments. In English-speaking parts of Europe the term " bottle crate " is more common but in the United States the term "milk crate" is applied even when the transported beverage is not milk.
The metric system became compulsory on 1 January 1872, in Germany and on 1 January 1876, in Austria. [ 1 ] Some obsolete German units have names similar to units that were traditionally used in other countries, and that are still used in a limited number of cases in the United Kingdom ( imperial units ) and fully in the United States ( United ...
Global milk production has increased rapidly over the past 50 years. According to Our World in Data, global milk production has nearly tripled since 1961, reaching around 930 million tonnes in 2022. The most popular milk is cow milk, followed by buffalo milk, goat milk, sheep milk and camel milk.
The usual rates are locally €0.02 for some wine bottles, €0.08 for beer bottles up to 0.5 L, and €0.15 for beer bottles with flip-top closures, beer bottles over 0.5 L and other bottles (mostly water and soft-drinks, lesser fruit drinks, milk, cream, yoghurt). Some bottles have an even higher deposit.
After many years of informal or optional metrication, the American public and much of the private business and industry still use US customary units today. [171] At least two states, Kentucky and California, have even moved towards demetrication of highway construction projects. [172] [173] [174]
One-litre beer mugs (German: Maßkrüge) at the 2006 Oktoberfest in Germany. The litre (Commonwealth spelling) or liter (American spelling) (SI symbols L and l, [1] other symbol used: ℓ) is a metric unit of volume. It is equal to 1 cubic decimetre (dm 3), 1000 cubic centimetres (cm 3) or 0.001 cubic metres (m 3).
Campina currently employs around 2200 people in Germany. Its works process around 1.4 billion litres of milk p.a. (Basis:March 2004). Turnover in 2005: €846 million (Campina worldwide: €3.569 billion).