The little milk cartons go not only to schools, but to other institutions like nursing homes and correctional facilities. It has about 500 institutional customers buying these items.

Milk does a body good — and that's why schools nationwide are scrambling for options to ensure students don't miss a precious drop during a paper carton shortage.

A nationwide shortage of half-pint milk cartons is hitting schools in several states, leaving them brainstorming other ways to serve the drink to their students. By Isabella Kwai Half-pint cartons ...

Cambria Co., PA (WJAC) — A shortage in milk cartons is forcing schools to quickly make changes to ensure they can put milk on student's lunch trays. 6 News spoke with officials to learn how ...

He had not received deliveries of milk cartons. He quickly used up all his stock. Cream-O-Land and many other dairy processors have run out of, or have a severe shortage of, half-pint (237ml) and ...

Many school districts in the U.S. are unable to obtain milk in half pints for their school meal programs due to the shortage of paper milk cartons.

Milk provider Cream-O-Land recently posted a notice on its website saying that it may have to alter orders because its main carton supplier, Pactiv Evergreen, is “experiencing major production ...

Half pint cartons of milk are processed on Sept. 28, 2015, at Crystal Creamery in Modesto. Joan Barnett Lee [email protected] Milk is an integral part of school lunches. If you’re building a tray ...

A cafeteria manager sorts individual milk cartons at Belmont Senior High cafeteria in Los Angeles, California on May 3, 2011. AP. In California, state education officials told schools to be ...