Availability of degradable plastic bags
2022-11-23
Availability of degradable plastic bags
1. Environmental protection, no waste
Now the global temperature is rising, and people are suffering from it. They pay more and more attention to environmental protection. Many people will choose their own cloth bags or shopping baskets when shopping in supermarkets. But sometimes when I forget to bring it, I have to use the shopping bag of the supermarket. Every time I go shopping, I bring back a shopping bag. As a result, I have a lot of useless bags at home and have to throw them away. They are not only wasteful but also very environmentally friendly. It is different with degradable plastic bags. The use of such shopping bags is not afraid of accumulation, because even if they are thrown into the trash can, such shopping bags can be degraded and recycled, and will not waste resources.
2. It is degradable and degrades faster without polluting the environment
One of the biggest disadvantages of plastic shopping bags is that they are hazardous waste and cannot be degraded, which will pollute the environment and be harmful to the soil. The more people use plastic shopping bags, the more people produce such harmful waste, which is a great harm to the environment. The use of degradable plastic bags has no such problem. Such shopping bags can be degraded less than a week after being discarded. The degradation speed is very fast and will not pollute the environment.
3. High cost performance
Some people may say that the cost of degradable plastic shopping bags must be higher than that of ordinary plastic shopping bags. How can the cost performance ratio be higher. In fact, as an enterprise, the cost considered is not only the product cost, but also the brand cost of the enterprise. With ordinary plastic shopping bags, although the cost of the bag is low, it still needs to pay to maintain the corporate image. The use of degradable plastic shopping bags can naturally improve the corporate brand image. Therefore, the cost of using degradable plastic shopping bags is lower.
Hazards caused by plastic bags that cannot be recycled and degraded?

GRS (Global Recycled Standard) is an international, voluntary and comprehensive product standard, which stipulates the third-party certification requirements for recycling content, production and marketing chain of custody, social and environmental events and chemical restrictions. The goal of GRS is to increase the use of recycled materials in products and reduce and eliminate the hazards caused by their production. Nowadays, GRS is detonated by major brands in the entire industrial chain, which is related to all supply chains.
Then dispose of used plastic bags?

Pre consumer recycled plastic bags: materials transferred from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. The reuse of some materials, such as rework, regrinding or residual materials generated in processing and reused in the same processing process, shall be excluded. That is, plastic bags that are recycled without consumer consumption.
Regeneration ratio: the proportion of recycled materials in the product or package by mass. Only pre consumer and post consumer materials are considered as traditional commercial recycled materials with recycled content. Because of their unstable quality and poor physical properties, most of them are lower than the price of new materials, and their performance is also worse than that of new materials. In order to meet the requirements of brand customers and meet internationally recognized environmental standards (such as GRS), GRS certified recyclable plastic bags have more stable quality and better performance than traditional recycled plastic bags.

2. It is proved that plastic packaging bags can be recycled, because GRS is the traceability certification and the most credible proof of recyclable packaging bags.
4. All certified products have standard recycled material content identification, providing reference for the next step of recycling.
5. Improve the market competitiveness of enterprises in terms of "green" and "environmental protection", and be more easily recognized by renewable enterprises.
6. GRS certification has more protection for employees. Employees are an important asset of the enterprise and an inexhaustible driving force for enterprise progress.
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