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Contact SupplierPlastic shopping bags, carrier bags, or plastic grocery bags, are a common type of in several countries. Most often these bags are intended for a single use to carry items from a store to a home: for storage or trash is common. Heavier duty plastic shopping bags are suitable for multiple uses as reusable shopping bags
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Compared to paper bags
• The says paper bags are worse for the environment than plastic. Plastic bags require much less energy to manufacture, ship and recycle and because of this plastic generates less . Plastic bags cause less air and water pollution. They compress to a small size in landfills.
• Plastic bags are durable, strong, low cost, and water and chemicals resistant.
• They can be heat sealed or welded.
• The light weight of plastic bags results in fewer atmosphere emissions compared to paper bags if both are land-filled.
• Light weight nature requires less energy consumption during transportation compared to paper with a 7:1 advantage.
• Many studies comparing plastic versus paper for shopping bags show that plastic bags have less net environmental effect than paper bags, requiring less energy to produce, transport and recycle; however these studies also note that recycling rates for plastic are significantly lower than for paper.
• Plastic bags can be incinerated in appropriate facilities for .
• Plastic carrier bags can be as trash bags or .
• Plastic bags are complimentary in many locations (but are charged or "taxed" in others).
• According to the Australian government most bags are reused as bin liners.