Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Emergency Survival Bag (Polythene) Discussion

Emergency Polythene Bivvy Discussion - These can be really helpful and save your backside if you get into trouble. Larger than the mylar versions and less reflectivity of body heat but they are waterproof.

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

The Effects of Plastic Bags on the Environment

!±8± The Effects of Plastic Bags on the Environment

It's easy to think of the negative effects of plastic bags on the environment when you consider that 100 billion plastic bags are used each year in the United States and that they take up to 1,000 years to break down. Fifty years ago there were no bags on this planet. Now consider based on their break down rate that every bag ever manufactured, except for the recycled or incinerated ones are either filling our landfills, polluting our waterways or hanging in our kitchen closets as clutter.

Often comforts of everyday life, things we now consider a necessity were developed and pushed into our lives only because they were the cheapest option. Long-term costs, such as the impact on our environment and the clean up of it weren't considered. This appears to be the case with plastic bags.

• Dependence on Foreign Oil - Plastic bags are manufactured using polyethylene a byproduct of oil. Roughly 60 to 100 million barrels of oil go into their production each year. China recently banned the use of plastic bags and their estimated savings in oil was about 37 million barrels per year.

• They Take a Very, Very Long Time to Break Down - Plastic bags haven't been around for long, less than fifty years. So no one knows for sure how long they take to break down. One thing is for sure though; all the plastic bags that haven't been recycled or incinerated are still on this planet in landfills, floating in the ocean, littering our parks, roadways and lakes, or just piled in corners of our closets, garages or kitchens. Grocery bags are made from polyethylene and are photodegradable and not biodegradable. Being photodegradable means, these bags need sunlight to break down. Therefore, burying them in a landfill accomplishes nothing other than to hide the problem and create mountains of trash buried out of sight. When and if they do degrade, they simply break down into smaller more toxic microscopic particles called petrol-polymers that seep into waterways and eventually enter our food chain.

• Plastic Bags Account for 10% of Debris Washed Up On Our Shoreline - They have been seen floating in the oceans, and washing up on shorelines as far North as the Arctic Circle and as far south as The Falkland Islands. What an awful eyesore to our planet as a whole.

• Kill Hundreds of Thousands of Animals Per Year - Believing the bags to be food, marine wildlife choke on the bags and die or they enter their digestive systems until they die. After death their bodies decompose, but not the bags.

Plastic bags are cheap, efficient and strong. They make shopping simple and easy. However plastic bags have many negative effects on the environment. They increase our dependence on foreign oil, pollute our waterways, fill our landfills, kill our wildlife and are an eyesore.


The Effects of Plastic Bags on the Environment

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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Plastic Bags..."The Harsh Facts"

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Thursday, December 8, 2011

Trash Compactor Bags - What You Must Know Before Buying Them

!±8± Trash Compactor Bags - What You Must Know Before Buying Them

People who have never had a trash compactor before could care less about having one, while those who have... well, they could never do without it. But if you have one in your kitchen area, the different types of trash compactor bags on the market and their availability will overwhelm you. Compared with when they first came out, trash compactors are affordable for just about everyone.

The majority are under dollar each with a few priced at 0 to 0 - the rest are priced in-between. The highlights in your life now are keeping up with the best prices you can find on these bags.

It is obvious if you are looking for trash compactor bags, you already have a compactor in your kitchen unless you are buying them together. Shopping online is a good way to look at a wide variety of bags.

Compactor bags come in a huge variety for you to choose from - fifty-percent recycled white plastic compactor bags in 180-count or 60-count; plastic compactor bags with odor remover in 60-count or 15-count; and a few generic brands that fit several compactors of compactors.

Factory designed or generic bags can be found online that fits Whirlpool, Hotpoint, G.E., Frigidaire, Magic Chef, O'Keef and many more. Meanwhile, some of the other bags listed online are the heavy-duty bags made of white polyethylene with pre-drilled hold-downs for preventing bag and trash slippage. Some brands of trash compactors use heavy-duty precuffed bags which measure 16″ x 9″ x 21.5″ with two-ply construction and a leak-proof inner lining. What most bags have in common is they provide white and black colored bags and they provide hold-downs.

Not surprisingly, once you get online it does not take long to find that buying online is a whole lot cheaper and a thousand times easier - all done inside your home or office. The search for a trash bag should be available to you in single batches or bulk in cases, and variety of sizes and types to fit your trash can meet all your compactor needs within seconds.

This can be done with several things happening at once -product guarantees, secure shopping methods, top-quality premier products, reasonable prices, availability of recycled bags, and same day shipping. But the best part is being able to do comparison-shopping for the best prices, the best products and to determine high merchant ratings - all things you cannot do when shopping locally.

All in all if you want the largest range at the most competitive prices, you definitely should start visiting some trash compactor websites right now!


Trash Compactor Bags - What You Must Know Before Buying Them

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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Heavy Duty Bags, Plastic Envelopes, and Security Bags

!±8± Heavy Duty Bags, Plastic Envelopes, and Security Bags

Custom industrial poly bags are manufactured in a variety of gauges and sizes that can be used for a multitude of purposes such as heavy duty bags, plastic envelopes, security bags and more. Poly bags can be completely customized with your company's color scheme and logo to help increase brand awareness and product familiarity. By using the same colors and logos on your custom industrial poly bags, you can establish a brand uniformity that will help customers and clients associate the different products and services you provide to that of your company.

Custom heavy duty bags are fully customizable and are manufactured from high quality poly film that features great sealability, high strength and a non slide surface for easy shipping, stacking and storing on pallets. Lawn and garden heavy duty bags feature multi-layer extrusion capabilities that enable form and fill applications that run faster and smoother. Custom lawn and garden heavy duty bags features include high impact strength, puncture resistance, low creep or stretch to retain shape and preserve stackability, UV protection film that lasts up to six months and fade resistant ink used in the customization process. Heavy duty bags made with an embossed texture are the perfect option for products that need to be safely and securely stacked on pallets for warehouse storage, secure transit and frequent loading & unloading.

Custom brandable poly plastic envelopes include shipping, mailing, promotional envelopes that are environmentally friendly and contain 35% Post Consumer Recycled Plastic. These poly plastic envelopes ensure that your product gets securely delivered. Heavy duty poly plastic envelopes and mailers are used by many major clients like DHL, QVC and FedEx. Made out of high-strength poly film, these types of plastic envelopes are able to handle a heavy load and are water, puncture and tear resistant. Custom poly plastic envelopes are available in custom colors and sizes, opaque for privacy, lightweight, and feature a writable and stamp/label adherent surface.

Poly security bags feature tamper evident closure systems and self-sealing permanent adhesives to make sure that what you need to keep secure, stays secure. Poly security bags are used by financial institutions, armored carriers, retailers for night deposits, cash transfers, payroll, checks, police evidence rooms and for holding patient valuables. Poly security bags feature a writable surface so important information can be recorded directly on to the surface. Tear-off receipts and sequential numbers also assist in the accountability of important materials.


Heavy Duty Bags, Plastic Envelopes, and Security Bags

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Monday, November 28, 2011

The Effect Plastic Bags Have on the Death of Wildlife

!±8± The Effect Plastic Bags Have on the Death of Wildlife

Doing something as simple as using reusable shopping bags can save the earth's wildlife. A devastating number of turtles, birds, whales and other animals are killed yearly due to plastic bags being mistaken for food like jellyfish. Once a plastic bag is ingested by an animal, it cannot be digested so it sits in the animal's gut, preventing other food digestion and resulting in an extremely painful and slow death.

A plastic bag can literally take 1000 years before it breaks down so after one animal dies from eating the plastic and its body decays, the plastic is left behind and can be ingested by another animal.

Turtle Food

Approximately 40 percent of autopsies done on turtles confirm the death being due to plastic bags stuck in their intestinal tract. When plastic bags float on the water, they look very similar to jellyfish which are a favorite food source for some turtles. These deaths can be prevented if everyone would simply use reusable grocery bags every time they go to the store.

One turtle in 2007 was found to have more than 50 items in her intestinal tract including nylon rope, plastic bags, cling film, balloons and candy wrappers. The less plastic that enters into the environment, the safer the wildlife will be.

Shameful Seas

A Bryde's whale that became stranded and died on Cairns beach in August, 2000 had an autopsy done to reveal 20 square feet of tightly packed plastic, primarily shopping bags, lodged in its stomach. So many whales like this one die in the ocean where the plastic eventually is exposed back into the water for other sea creatures to feed on, creating a viscous cycle.

It is estimated that over 100,000 marine creatures are killed each year because of plastic pollution. These animals are not dying instantly, they are suffering. Imagine not being able to digest any food and then not being able to eat because of it and literally just starving yourself to death all because of plastic bags and other plastic products. Every time consumers go to the store they make a conscious decision to either use a reusable shopping bag or not. It is not understandable why anyone would still choose to use traditional bags, knowing the harm that they are creating.

Changes Coming?

It is not uncommon to find flamingos, platypus and other animals, strangled from getting tangled in plastic bags and not being able to twist their way out. In Australia in 2008, a crocodile was found dead with 25 plastic bags in its stomach. Additionally, pelicans, seagulls and other birds are found daily with the same cause of death.

Due to these figures and other environmental concerns, many countries such as Bangladesh, Taiwan, China and Italy have either banned plastic bags completely or have issued laws to charge for them, making reusable bags the primary choice.

Sadly, in the United States, plastic industries rally hard to resist possible laws or bans, claiming that jobs will disappear. It is estimated that Americans throw away a minimum of 100 billion bags per year. Some cities, however are taking their own approach. Places like New York City are talking about imposing a six cents tax per plastic bag dispensed. Many stores already offer small incentives to consumers that bring their own Eco-friendly bags with them when doing their shopping.

Small changes are happening but you do not have to wait for city taxes or state laws to make a difference. Stop using plastic bags today to save the animals of tomorrow.


The Effect Plastic Bags Have on the Death of Wildlife

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Saturday, November 26, 2011

The Dangers of Plastic Bags

articles.mercola.com - Do you know which type of bag can REALLY help save the environment and your health? Watch and discover the real dangers of plastic bags and learn how you can help save the earth.

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Thursday, November 24, 2011

Trash Can Liner Basics

!±8± Trash Can Liner Basics

Many janitorial companies supply trash can liners to their customers. So how do you know what to recommend? Trash can liners used to be judged by overall thickness. Now, however, they are broken down into the types of resin: low-density, linear low-density, and density polyethylene. To understand liners, it is important to become familiar with the basics of trash can liners.

* If you need a liner that resists tears and is puncture resistant, you need one that is a linear low-density polyethylene. These work well for trash that has sharp and jagged edges.

* If a lower gauge is suitable for your situation, a high-density polyethylene liner is a better choice.

* A resin that is still used in lower end liners is low-density polyethylene. Many manufacturers no longer use this type of resin.

* Gauge is a term that describes the thickness of a liner. A low-density liner is measured in mils and high-density liners are measured in microns.

* A mil is a measurement based on thousandths of an inch, .000. An example is a 50 mil bag would be 50 thousands of an inch. Low-density liners range from .37 to 2 mil in thickness.

* A micron one hundred thousandths of an inch. Most high-density liners range from 6 to 22 microns.

The type of trash can liner you need depends on the type of building you are cleaning and the waste that you're collecting. Linear low-density can liners, which come in various colors, are good for multipurpose applications. They are puncture and stretch resistant when compared to high-density liners. Low-density can liners are the most widely used liners in industry today.

High-density trash can liners are more durable than the same thickness of polyethylene liners. In addition they are up to three times stronger. High-density liners need less petroleum in the manufacturing process so they are about one third the thickness of low-density polyethylene liners. When high-density liners are properly made they will rarely "zipper" if punctured. Because of the manufacturing process these liners are generally more cost-effective than other types of liners.

Once you decide on the proper liner, make sure to measure the waste receptacles for the correct liner size. For the bag width, measure 1/2 of the outer circumference of the container. Measure bag length by taking the height of the container, then adding 1/2 of the diameter of the bottom of the container (measure 1/2 of the diagonal for square containers), and then adding another 3 inches to allow for overhang.

Choosing the right supplies will be a positive reflection on your cleaning business and will help keep your buildings looking neat and professional. And if you sell supplies to your customers, they will appreciate your knowledge and recommendations.

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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Cello Bags Vs Polyethylene Bags

!±8± Cello Bags Vs Polyethylene Bags

Cello bags and polyethylene bags are extremely popular today. The tricky part is that many people do not know the difference between them. It is not uncommon to see or hear people referring to cellophane as polyethylene, and vice versa. This educational article is meant to eliminate the confusion between these two once and for all, as well as to help you choose one for your current needs (marketing, gifts, etc.).

Cellophane

Cellophane is a transparent grease-resistant and moisture-resistant film produced from viscose. It was invented by a Swiss textile engineer in 1911. In 1913, France began to manufacture it on a large scale. It became the first moisture-resistant and flexible packaging in the world. However, after the invention of polyethylene in the 1950s, cellophane started to be replaced by this new material.

Cello bags are typically used for foods (meats, cheeses, candy, cookies, etc.), as well as for small gifts and cards (greeting cards, florist cards). Cello packs are often used to wrap gifts for parties and holidays (birthday, wedding, Christmas, Easter, Valentine's Day, etc.). They can be clear or colored, as well as preprinted or custom printed. They can be flat or gusseted, as well as square or cone-shaped. You can even find biodegradable cello packaging.

Polyethylene

Polyethylene (polythene) is a plastic made by polymerization of ethylene. Today, this plastic is the most manufactured plastic in the world. This material can look transparent or white (depending on its density). It is much more durable and resistant to elements than cellophane. It is used in bulletproof vests, boats, ATVs, and cartilage replacements in medicine. Polyethylene was invented in 1899 by a German engineer, but it stayed in oblivion until 1933. By the 1950s, it became the most popular material for packaging and started to replace the less durable cello bags.

Polyethylene is separated into 3 types: HDPE (High Density Polythene), MDPE (Medium Density Polythene), and LDPE (Low Density Polythene). The HDPE is used for durable bags with regular or reinforced patch handles or loop handles. The LDPE is used for lightweight T-shirt bags. These are more capacious; besides, they are the most affordable type of packaging.

Custom Printed Cellophane and Polyethylene

Both types of materials (cellophane and polyethylene) can be custom printed in full color. They can be used for placing text or graphics onto them, such as for marketing and gifts. Cellophane packs are commonly used for gifts, while polyethylene packs are more often used for marketing. Cello bags are used to carry gift cards with flowers, as well as gifts for birthdays, weddings, Christmas, Easter, Valentine's Day, and other events. Polythene bags are used for product sales, as well as to distribute printed materials at presentations and exhibitions.

Both types of bags are one of the most versatile, compact and cost-effective mediums for advertising or personalized gifts. Any of these two types of personalized packaging will be long remembered and create a favorable impression on the receiver. We hope that we have eliminated the confusion between the two, and that now you know which type of them is best for your current needs.


Cello Bags Vs Polyethylene Bags

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