Advantages of using plastic packaging bags

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Advantages of using Plastic Packaging Bags

Plastic Packaging has strong advantages that make using them a great choice. Main Benefits ● ● ● ●

Strong Durable Lightweight Saving in cost and material resources

Let’s take a closer look at the advantages of Plastic Packaging: Durability Whether it’s perishable foodstuffs, fragile keepsakes, or expensive electronics, plastic packaging is widely used because it offers strong support resistance to the wear and tear that could otherwise happen during production and shipping. Durable plastics are lightweight, so they consume less energy during the production process.​ ​The durability offered by plastic packaging also allows manufacturers to print eye-catching, high-quality custom designs, increasing product visibility in a retail setting. Cady Bag, based in the US, is a ​PP bag manufacturer​ of products with a wide variety of uses. Lightweight Plastics are valued for being lightweight. If you were to use other packaging alternatives like paper and cardboard, glass, steel, aluminum, textiles, rubber, and cork, the weight would be on average 4.5 times heavier, as they require more material output to create the same packaging. Lightweight and strong, plastic packaging does not add weight to your product or increase your manufacturing and shipping costs. Since plastic is lighter, it consumes less​ energy and creates less greenhouse gas emissions than other materials. Non-degradable Plastic packaging from ​domestic manufacturers​ can survive extreme environments and doesn’t easily degrade in hot or cold temperatures, preserving the integrity of the food or beverage inside. It also protects your products from moisture, oxygen, dust, light and odors. Sustainable


Though plastic is thought to be harmful to the environment because of its resistance to corrosion and its bio-inertness, it is these very qualities that make plastic resources efficient. Plastic packaging is easily and frequently recycled. Choosing plastics over alternative packaging saves 75.8 million metric tons of CO​2​ ,which is equivalent to the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions saved by taking almost 16 million passenger vehicles off the road for a year. The high versatility of plastic allows for ease of reuse and recycling. In fact, today, companies are creating specialized plastic bag machines that help optimize the recyclability of plastic. Versatility There are many applications for plastic packaging, including bags and pouches, films, flow wraps, shells, trays, bottles etc. With the elasticity plastic offers, you can fit your packaging to your product precisely with a custom-made mold and package the plastic into a box, sphere, cylinder, or any other shape required. You can seal a product tightly or provide a simple open frame or hanger. It allows you to package something as small as a button cell battery or as large as a pallet of bicycles. Cost-effective The lightness of plastic cuts down your shipping and transportation costs over other alternatives. It saves you the cost of getting products to consumers and getting post-consumer materials to recycling centers. The material’s resource efficiency saves you money as well. Replacing plastic packaging with other materials requires 80% more cumulative energy. Plastics, then, result in a significant cost savings on your energy bill over other materials. A note on Polypropylene packaging Polypropylene packaging containers do not leak harmful chemicals into foods or liquids. They commonly contain yogurt, drinks, condiments and medicines. A Type 5 plastic is flexible, hard and semi-transparent, and has a high resistance to solvents. Today plastics have emerged as a preferred choice of packaging materials for various productsfrom food and beverages, to chemicals, electronic items and more, as they offer unique advantages over conventional forms of packaging.


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