Safe Packaging Vs. Harmful Packaging

Recycling is a very essential and crucial process in our world today. The term recycling means that waste can be converted into new products instead of being discarded. As the population continues to grow, humans are using more and more products. In order to reduce the amount of waste on planet Earth, and to preserve its resources, recycling is significant. Not only does recycling allow the environment to thrive, but it also allows living people to thrive as well. There are many materials that can be recycled. Plastics, electronics, aluminum, food and glass are only but a few products that can be recycled. Recycling can benefit our environment in numerous amount of ways. However, without recycling, negative impacts on our environment can occur. Some of these effects include pollution whether it is air, land or sea, depletion of natural resources and even an increase threat to global warming. Therefore, recycling is extremely important to sustain our environment.

Paper recycling, on the other hand has been around for much longer. Pulp and paper plants in Canada have been using recycled material for more than 60 years (Bourdages, 1993, para. 4). One of the most obvious environmental benefits of using recycled paper materials, is that it will help to reduce the amount of trees being cut down for production of new paper. Overall, it is evident that there is an established recycling effort in Canada, featuring both positive and negative aspects.

According to ecowatch.com, all the plastic humans added up thrown away added up can circle the Earth four times. This is around 500 billion plastic bags, and most of them end up on landfill sites. The plastic bags in landfills usually lay there for over 300 years until they are completely photodegraded, or decomposed by the light, especially sunlight. During the process of being photodegraded, the plastic bags break down into small toxic particles that are either released into the air, or into the soil. These small toxic particles contaminate many different things such as soil and waterways. Since it is in the soil and waterways, animals often come and end up eating these dangerous toxic particles. Some supermarkets use biodegradable bags that are said to be “environment friendly,” but that is a total lie. According to an article about plastic bag pollution by Sharon Jacobsen, it says, “...the truth is that the process of breaking down these petrol based bags causes carbon to become methane which is a greenhouse gas.” Greenhouse gases are very dangerous to the environment since it causes temperature increase around the whole entire globe. Therefore, in conclusion, neither plastic bags or so-called “environment friendly” bags are good for the environment all around us, and we should not use them. Instead, we should use reusable

During the 1900s, Americans realized the amount of waste they produce and the damage that comes along with it. Average people see recycling as a simple process. Placing items such as glass, plastics, aluminum, and paper on their curb or dropping them off at recycling centers takes part of their weekly routine. However, many lack knowledge as to what happens to their products after this step. Intricate, but crucial, recycling helps improve our environment.

Most of the packaging in the past are not sustainable. Packaging takes an important role in achieving sustainability. Company nowadays should design sustainable packaging to fulfill the CSR. Sustainability packaging is using the materials which can be recycled. It should be beneficial and safe for humans and environment. The packaging goals of P&G are reducing packaging by 20% per consumer use, doubling our use of recycled resin in plastic packaging and ensuring 90% of our packaging is recyclable and develop the ability to recycle. Pampers brand of P&G substitutes the corrugate with recycled plastic bags which are easier to carry. The recycle plastic bags reduce 80% packaging material than before. This recycle plastic bags fulfill the first goal of packaging of P&G. Second goal which is use more of recycled resin is began in China. The packaging of the oral care is using the post-consumer resin to achieve sustainability and also providing benefit for the company in saving cost. The first category of P&G which reached their third goals is Family Care business. Family Care Business have 100% of recyclable

Purchasing supplies that are made out of recycled materials helps support the entire recycling ecosystem.

What happens after someone throws their water bottle into the recycling bin? Or what about when they toss out their newspaper? With recycling, anyone can reduce waste and in turn help the environment. Recycling has many economic and environmental advantages; therefore, its use must undergo exponential growth.

Recycling is the process of reusing, reutilizing, and turning waste into new reusable items. This procedure is saving space in the landfills and conserving the natural recourses of raw materials being utilized. There have been many different opinions as to whether recycling is worth all the work, time, and cost of processing recycled material. Recycling has come a long way and has many benefits such as cost savings for consumers/businesses, construction/building with recycled materials, and the positive effects it has on the environment.

As the world’s population slowly increases, the need to recycle becomes more evident to safeguard the future of the environment for future generations. With Australia using 3.92 billion single use plastic bags each year of which 50 million ending up in Australia’s litter system, green-minded Australians have started using the green reusable shopping bags (Plastic as a Resource, 2015). Although some people switched over to using the green bags, there is evidence that suggest they are not as environmentally friendly as some people might think. This report will investigate triple bottom line sustainability, materials and provide a recommendation for future shopping bags.

Packaging can be defined as the materials used for the containment, protection, handling, delivery, and presentation of goods (Murphy and Knemeyer, 2015). Promotion, protection, and identification are the three general functions that packaging serves (Murphy and Knemeyer, 2015). Packaging is perceived as a major environmental issue based on eighty percent of consumers (Murphy and Knemery, 2015). Differing acceptable regulations across nations is a key problem when selecting packaging material (Murphy and Knemeyer, 2015). Using environmentally packaging material is one packaging strategy a firm can adopt (Murphy and Knemeyer, 2015).

When considering the production of a plastic bag, for every kg of plastic that is produced to create these bags 6kg of Co2 is emitted into the atmosphere. This method is not very sustainable as eventually we will ruin the Earth and its atmosphere. The Reusable bag was created to combat this problem, reusable bags are manufactured responsibly without using environmentally harmful materials. Each reusable bag can eliminate hundreds and thousands of plastic bags. One should keep in mind, however, that effectiveness depends on the type of bag that

The global packaging industry has seen many shifts in the last few decades. Technological advancements and changing consumer attitude have led to a move from the traditional packaging materials like wood, glass, and metal to economical, sustainable ones like PET, Tetra Pak, and other flexible packaging options. Marketers, retailers, and consumers prefer flexible packaging options over glass as they provide protection against hazards like moisture, heat, and chemical reactions, are lightweight and easily handled, and have several cost benefits. PET is not fragile or heavy like glass, and has a longer shelf life. Ajanta Packaging, since its inception in 1981, has grown to become one of the leading suppliers of glass bottles

Many people take for granted that plastic bags are recyclable when they are not a commonly acceptable recyclable material. For instance, in Fairfax County, Virginia which is a part of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan area and has a current population of over 1 million people, there are currently no recycling facilities within the county that accept plastic bags for processing. Consider for a moment how

Recycling is a form of waste management in which someone would use something that has already been used to create something new. The environment itself is benefited because recycling is a generally “clean,” process which puts factories that release harmful pollutants out of business, and ready to be taken over by other vocations. Though recycling is widely viewed as an environmental benefit, it also benefits other factors of life. Recycling not only affects the environment, but also the economy and the world known today.

We threw out scraps. By the time I moved on, everything was recycled. We even urged customers to use paper that had at least 10% post consumer product.” Although paper has been harmful to the environment in the past, it has become the most recycled material in the country. This recyclable product is a practical and eco-friendly vehicle for conveying information.