Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk Day
Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk Day is held on February 11. This event in the second decade of the month February is annual.
To us, wasted milk is not only a financial blow. So we cry over spilled milk. Identifying and measuring waste is a crucial first step to prioritise resources and drive change.
But did you know that our highways and roads have a dividing center line today thanks to a spilled milk incident more than a century ago? It was in 1911, in Wayne County, Michigan, that Edward N. Hines, a member of the county road commission, noticed a leaky milk wagon dripping a trail of white liquid down the road. At that moment, it dawned on him that painting a center line down the street could separate opposing traffic, an idea that has since been heralded as the single most important traffic safety device in the history of automobile transport.