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.

The Pennsylvania-based company, which sells milk along with other dairy products and beverages like juice and iced tea, processes 1.3 million small milk cartons each week, Galliker said.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.