Hi friends! I am here to tell you about biodegradable packaging or
biodegradable bags!! Word biodegradable is something sounds wow.

Now
there is an increasing demand for biodegradable bags especially for
consumer packaging due to serious environmental concerns. Lots of
customers pay more money if the product is packed in biodegradable bags. The customer now thinks we should give something good to mother earth. So bio bags are getting more and more popular.

There
is a company named sun chips which has introduced their potato chips in
biodegradable packaging. They were the first company in the world who
has come up with compostable packaging. They also have made television
advertisement about their potato chips packaging film used. The
response was tremendous from the customers. Their sales grew more than
300% . This is one of the most success stories of biodegradable bags
for potato chips packaging. There is one problem in sun chips
packaging, the shelf life of the product is reduced and crispness of
the product packed is not good compared with traditional plastic bags
packaging. Still they have success and this is the happy ending of sun
chips biodegradable packaging.

Similarly there are many
companies like Kenco coffee trying to sell the products which is
environmental friendly plastic bags. Before kenco coffee used to pack
their coffee in glass jars. They now pack coffee with resealable plastic bags
with zipper bags. These bags are better known as “stand up pouches”
this stand up bags is also resealable Ziploc so the product can be
resealed again. They also made advertisement that they have reduced the
packaging weight by using flexible packaged plastic bags rather than
traditional glass containers or jars. After this advertisement their
sales increased around 400%. By using flexible packaging instead of
bottles there is saving of 7 times transportation cost. So for example
we can fit 100000 glass or plastic jars and the truck if full. But if
we fix stand up pouches it will be around 700000 bags. So it saves fuel.

Now
biodegradable bags can be made with many different products like corn
starch, rice starch, etc. So we have to use natural resources once
again to produce biodegradable packaging. So if there is a high demand
of biodegradable bags then farmers has to sow rice and corn more and
instead of human consumption of this products we have to send them to
the plastic factory. So poor countries like Africa, India and china
there is a shortage of food and many human beings will be in trouble
due to high food price as there will be acute shortage of food grains
in the market. This will create big problem of surviving for poor
countries where food grains is the main staple diet.

So
according to me there are two sides of the product one is good and
other side is very bad. For my conclusion we should avoid using
biodegradable packaging because it consumes our natural resources and
continue using some of the reprocessed plastic which will balance the
wheel of the environment.

For more information please visit: http://cellophane-bags.co.uk/Biodegradable-bags