A thin material derived from wood, cloth or grasses is referred to as paper This material has various uses such as writing, printing , decorating, cleaning, packaging and other industrial processes. A material made from oil which has synthetic or semi-synthetic organic compounds that enable it to be molded into solid is called plastic. It also has several uses such as packaging, piping and plumbing.
In this article we will major on the packaging aspect and highlight the advantages of settling for the paper material. One of the aspect to highlight is their effects to the environment . Paper bags are biodegradable which means that they easily degenerate completely leaving no traces behind hence they are environmentally friendly. The fact that plastics are non-biodegradable their traces are still present where they were discarded or a long period of time. Plastics are hence said to be photo degradable since they can be destroyed by UV rays however after a long duration of time. Some harmful effects are caused to the environment when plastics since they take long to be destroyed such as increase level of air pollution, affect neatness of a place and affect soil fertility.
Plastics discarded in the environment are seen to cause harmful effects to wildlife and marine life. Plastics have caused deaths of a number of animals through starvation having taken it thinking it was food to them. By considering the state of our environment, the recycling option of material being used in our packaging is an important element to think of. For paper bags the process of recycling is said to be easier to recycle and the end product is of good quality while for plastics is an intense process which majority of companies avoid since they can damage machines plus the end product is of low quality.
Paper bags can be branded and appear in different qualities which makes them preferred by some groups of people as a symbol of status.
Companies can use paper bags to advertise themselves and create competition to its rivals. Quality premium bags with the brand of a company or any other important information being labeled on the bag could be such a captivating thing to customers.
Business people have a preference of using the paper bags to pack things for their customers having taken note of important aspects from their market such as convenient as they are easy to carry especially with hot items and image created to them as being of higher quality. Offers being given by sellers can be written on the bag and a photo of the item inside to stimulate more sales.
The choice of using Paper as a packaging bag is indeed a beneficial thing since it offers a lot of advantages of using it both to us and our surrounding.