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Easy Ways to Go Green with Custom Plastic Bags

Plastic is an essential packaging material in our world. It keeps our products and customers safe, especially with food products. However, it has gotten a bad rap for its impact on the environment. Still, plastic is not the culprit. Your company can take measures when using custom plastic bags to go green and ensure that your customers do so as well, ultimately making a change for the better.

Switch to Efficient Packaging

While custom plastic bags have a bad reputation, they are often much more efficient than other packaging materials. For instance, say you have an e-commerce business selling books or clothing. Traditionally, you would send out your products in bulky cardboard boxes. In addition to the box, which is thick and often much larger than the item you’ll actually be sending, you’d use packing peanuts, bubble wrap or some other material as a buffer. All of these items are likely to be thrown away, even the cardboard! By switching to custom plastic bags, more specifically poly mailers, you eliminate all of this waste.

Choose a Responsible Plastic Bag Manufacturer

Your choice of plastic bag manufacturer has a big impact on the environment. If you simply go with the lowest bidder, you may be sacrificing the environment. Do your research! Make sure your plastic bag manufacturer recycles all possible scraps, has an energy conservation program in place and takes other green measures, like using recycled resins, whenever possible. As a green plastic bag manufacturer, we make sure we do all this and more to minimize our impact on the environment.

Recyclable Custom Plastic Bags

The best part about custom plastic bags is they are customizable! We don’t just mean the color, sizing and printing of your bags; you can choose the actual material your plastic bag manufacturer uses as well. For instance, your plastic bag manufacturer has recyclable resins available, allowing you to create recyclable plastic bags. Though there is an extra cost associated with these custom plastic bags, it is well worth it to establish your business as an ecologically responsible company.

Pay It Forward

When you choose custom plastic bags, you are able to dictate exactly what is printed on your bags. Use this to your advantage by encouraging your customers to recycle your custom plastic bags. Include the recycling symbol, write a short blurb about what your company is doing to reduce your impact on the environment and invite them to join you in your efforts.