By: Jim Johnson | 2012-05-24 | Manufacturing Right from homes to large scale warehouses to retail stores, plastic bags have become indispensible in our life today. Whether you are travelling or going grocery shopping, you cannot eliminate these bags from your life. read more
By: Beth Aldrich | 2010-04-04 | Environmental Bye, Bye Bag Lady, Reusable Bags for Me! Challenge everyone in your family to take reusable bags whenever they go and avoid using plastic bags! This simple step to preserve natural resources really adds up when you think of all the plastic bags you might use in a year. read more
By: Ozie Klein | 2010-04-04 | Environmental If we take close look, plastic (shopping) bags really have a damaging effect on these environmental systems. Plastic is non-biodegradable, toxic and not recyclable in many sense of the word. Nowadays people feel more and more the need for an attempt to seek alternatives in eliminating the use of plastic and reducing plastic waste. read more
By: Andrew Cheng | 2011-03-26 | Environment Plastic bags and wraps are typically made from type-2 high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and type-4 low-density polyethylene (LDPE) plastic. A general rule of thumb when recycling plastic bags is to make sure the plastic bags are empty and clean. Do not include used plastic food wrap, bags with food residue, or material that has been painted or glued. Doing so will contaminate the recycled material making the entire load unusable. Unusable plastics are usually thrown away and land filled. read more
By: Chenxia Wang | 2010-11-10 | Health & Fitness Plastic bags do bring a lot of convenience to people's life, but at the same time, it also brings long-term harms. The recycling value of plastic bags is very low. When the waste plastic bags scatter on city streets, tourism zone, in the water, or long the roads and railways, it will cause "visual pollution". What's worse, it will also cause some potential hazards. read more
By: chris henry | 2012-06-10 | Business Ideas If someone goes in and buys a magazine and a pack of gum, is it environmentally proper to give them a big paper bag when a small plastic bag might be more appropriate. read more
By: PlasticPlace | 2012-05-31 | Tools and equipment The article is about the concept of plastic recyclable bags which is becoming popular at a very fast pace. read more
By: Andrew Cheng | 2011-03-26 | Environment Always keep plastic bags (including grocery bags and bags from department stores) in your car. Reusing grocery bags is actually much more eco-friendly than using thicker tote bags made from cotton or non-woven fabric (lower carbon emissions). Store products using plastic bags at home. They're great for keeping dust away. You can also use these bags to sort items in your freezer. Bring plastic bags in your luggage case when traveling to store dirty clothing. read more
By: Timothy S. Davis | 2010-04-02 | Environmental As the manufacturers of polyethelyne plastic bags lowered the price to well below that of paper sacks, stores were given them out like hot cakes to carry your purchases. This created a landslide of bags laying in dumps all across the world that will not decompose for hundreds of years. There is an alternative solution. Use degradable or biodegradable bags. They are much more friendlier to the environment. read more
By: Dirk Rowell | 2010-12-06 | Business In recent years, it has been almost impossible to find a shop that doesn't use plastic bags in one form or another. This is largely due to the cheap production costs and easy availability of these bags and, although plastic bags are cheap and do their job well, they are not always the most environmentally friendly option. read more
By: Zain-Ul-Abideen | 2010-11-21 | Online promotion To satisfy the varying demands of customers, custom printed bags are the best solution, as they are a special type of bags. Common examples of custom printed plastic bags are the plastic shopping bags available in the market today. Customized items like these are not limited to a specific user or style. They are diverse in both design and demand. They can be used for a large number of purposes. Other custom printed items are typically used for a specific purpose. Take the example of custom print read more
By: Jenny Schweyer | 2011-02-24 | Business Retailers who are reluctant to remove plastic shopping bags from their stores, but don't want to contribute to global warming: take heart. It is unnecessary to stop investing in promotional plastic bags to reduce your carbon footprint. read more
By: Amit Ghia | 2011-09-22 | Handbags 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are used worldwide, out of which only 3 % of plastic is recycled and the rest is littered into landscape and ocean read more
By: Vic Brain | 2011-08-31 | Business The use of impressionable on otherwise applause is also for packing the art images and wrapping the pictures which acquire to be dissolver supply and author dilute than the agitation materials. read more
By: amit Ghia | 2012-02-22 | Handbags Millions of plastic bags litter in and around our surrounding spoiling the atmosphere and nature. The movement of eco friendly environment for the cause of global warming has brought many concepts of eco friendliness into acceptance. read more