Tag: plastic

Hangers in some fashion or design, are in every household across the United States and probably much of the world.

What should be done with hangers when we no longer need or want them? Depending on the type of material from which they are made, there are a few options for you.

In an age of plenty, what do you get someone for a birthday or Christmas?  A gift card, of course.  But what are they made of? What do I do with them after I use them?

Sandwich bags are categorized as “film” or “plastic film” along with a multitude of other types of plastic bags such as grocery bags, cereal bags that don’t tear like paper, bread bags, dry cleaning bags and other food storage bags.

Disposable razors gained immediate popularity as a convenient alternative to the straightedge blade that had to be re-sharpened.

Although today’s disposable razors are far from what the original disposables were, they were a step in the right direction in a razor for shorter-term use that had a definite end of its life and usefulness. Years later…enter the plastic disposable razors that we know today.

Disposable paper cups are easy and convenient, but what should we do with them when we’re done with them?

Potato chips are almost the number one snack food among Americans - all flavors and types.   Frito Lay sells about $12 million worth of potato chips each year.  If you break that down into about $3 per bag, that equals about 4 million bags sold per year.

Today’s cold breakfast cereals, being packaged in both a plastic bag and a boxboard box, pose some questions regarding the recyclable nature of each.

Plastic bags are lightweight, strong, convenient alternatives to paper grocery bags.  People seem to prefer them to paper bags because they have handles, are easy to store and reusable for many purposes. 

Flexibility and resistance to condensation also make plastic bags a more attractive choice.  Why would these popular helps to society be banned?

Spiral notebooks, regardless of whether they have a plastic or metal spiral binding, are recyclable. The preferred way to recycle them, however, is to remove the spiral binding prior to putting the notebook itself into your recycling bin.

What is bubble wrap?

Bubble wrap is a plastic material contains evenly spaced, protruding air-filled pockets. The term “bubble wrap” is a generic trademark owned by Sealed Air Corporation, co-founded by Alfred Fielding in 1960.  The air-filled plastic packaging that comes with such shipments as Amazon packages is the same principal and made from the same or similar material.