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Pros and cons of paper packaging

Cellophane bags are more common around the world. They are comfortable, have long become a traditional packaging material. But now in many countries there is a partial replacement of polyethylene on environmentally friendly cellulose. In supermarkets, customers are encouraged to put products in bags made of paper. Such packaging is successfully used for promotional purposes. The presence of contact information and company logo on it makes it ideal for decorating souvenirs and gifts intended for valuable customers and business partners. Coated cellulose, from which souvenir paper bags are made, is excellent for accurate reproduction of full-color images, allows uniform filling of the background and any kind of decoration. This material is initially not strong enough, but lamination can cope with the problem.

Paper is an environmentally friendly material. Recycling packaging of plant origin takes place without damage to the environment. The decay of polyethylene and plastic lasts much longer than cellulose, and is accompanied by the release of harmful substances. In addition, their production, which requires about 4% of the total oil produced, leads to considerable emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Intensively using plastic bags, mankind, in fact, poisons itself.

Sooner or later we will have to abandon the products for the production of which requires oil, its reserves are not unlimited, it is not a renewable resource. Wood is used to make cellulose. Given the enormous volumes of packaging material produced annually in the world, one would fear that switching to paper bags would contribute to a significant reduction in forest land. The green of trees is the main source of oxygen; it is not for nothing that forests are called the lungs of our planet. But these fears are in vain. Rice husks, straw, secondary raw materials are suitable for paper production. Paper, unlike cellophane, is easy to recycle.


The only significant disadvantage of the "green" bag is its relative high cost, which is explained by the greater energy intensity of its production. The cost of electrical energy in the manufacture of one such bag is approximately 2511 kilojoules, which is four times more than is required to obtain its oil counterpart. Be that as it may, gift and wrapping paper bags are becoming a familiar element of our lives.

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