What is Plastic Packaging?
Packaging forms by far the largest outlet for our recycled plastic. While packaging is not that easy to define, it is an essential part of our economy’s marketing and distribution system. Plastic packaging performs several functions: 1. It protects food from light, heat, oxygen, natural contamination, and tampering. 2. It preserves food and prevents food waste. 3. It protects consumer goods from being crushed, soiled, or stolen. 4. It protects young children from harmful drugs and chemicals. 5. It helps to inform consumers of the proper use of products, their storage, features, and warranty. 6. It allows for easier transportation, warehousing, and distribution. Generically defined as a container for protecting and selling a product, it is the tough, lightweight flexibility and versatile sealing methods of plastic packaging that makes it so popular. In simple terms, packaging should protect what it sells, and sell what it protects. It has to supply both protection and sales to the produ
