Paper bags: its origin and now Author: John alden Thanks to the lady employee Margaret Knight for her witty decision of incepting the making of the paper bags. She once accidentally, as all inventions happen, found some square bottoms from her manufacturing unit and tried using it as the bags for her items to get carried so that this will ease her stress to carry them home. These paper bags thus came to existence and did not then look back. The bags are now in today’s world manufactured on a huge range for getting it done anyways.
The plastic bags are slowly getting the back seat with its bad intentions for the earth environment. They are getting banned in many countries and they are charged more than paper in some other countries so that people reduce using them and get back to reusable paper bags or the cloth bags which are also equally sturdy like the plastic bags. These paper bags have a good history with environment. Other than consumption of more water and wood they do not give any other complains to the environmentalists. They are more of used in branded clothes’ companies where the usage is not limited to just packing them but also to sell them to the customers. Good ice cream brands also have left the plastics and embraced the paper bags for changing the style of packing and selling to the consumers. Moreover if the ice creams are concerned they need cooler atmosphere even in the bags which is better in the paper bags than the plastic which will not leave you having disappointed melted flavors of your ice creams.