Recycled Carrier Bags
Recent years have seen a growing awareness amongst the public, government and environmental agencies about the impact of plastic carrier bags on the environment. A huge range of advice and initiatives concerned with recycling carrier bags, often given away free in retail outlets, has emerged and businesses and consumers are becoming more savvy with regards to taking, using and disposing of plastic bags.
Polythene, from which most cheap plastic bags are made, are non-degradable and can take over one hundred years to fully decompose, often leaving behind harmful by-products. Until awareness of this issue was raised, plastic bags were used and thrown away with a carefree attitude that has littered the western world with millions of bags buried in landfills.
The easiest way to reduce the impact of plastic carrier bags on the environment and recycle plastic carrier bags is to reuse them as many times as possible before they become holey and unusable. Each time you recycle a carrier bag for your shopping, you take one less new bag from the shop. Recycling carrier bags until they are no longer viable and then putting the remains into the recycling bins often provided by supermarkets ensures that the best possible use has been made of the carrier bag and you have made a huge contribution to reducing the damaging effects to the environment of wasting carrier bags.
The good news is that, once reused to their capacity, polythene carrier bags can be recycled by melting down the plastic and producing plastic pellets. These can then be moulded into new, recycled carrier bags or, more commonly, recycled refuse sacks. Unfortunately, recycled carrier bags are not as strong as new ones and tend not to have a uniform appearance that is intrinsic to brand management and printing.
The trend now is towards more eco-friendly bags, made from bio-degradable material which can be just as strong as the strongest polythene bag and impacts far less on our environment than polythene bags. At The Printed Bag Shop we only supply environmentally friendly, degradable printed plastic carrier bags designed to promote your brand and your eco-friendly credentials at the same time. We offer the option to have your branded bags printed with an environmentally friendly logo so your customers can be confident that your company is actively contributing to protecting the environment. These bags are also suitable for multi-reuse so your customers will recycle the bags over and over for their shopping and be actively promoting your brand and company when they do so.
Please contact us for advice about the best packaging solutions for your business or if you would like to request a free quote or sample.
