The same properties that have made plastic bags so commercially successful and omnipresent, namely, their low weight and resistance to degradation, have also contributed to their proliferation in the environment. Disposable plastic bags became popular so quickly, primarily because of their convenience. All that changed in 1985, when a speaker at a convention of the Society of Plastic Engineers spoke about how cheap single-use plastic bags were compared to paper bags. Single-use plastic bags began to appear almost immediately in grocery stores across the United States.
United. Single-use plastics are plastics that are designed to be used only once or for a very short period of time and then discarded. Bioplastic bags, or biodegradable bags, stand between the invention and the prohibition of plastic bags. With alternatives such as bioplastics gaining ground in the market, consumer preference for plastic bags could be reduced.
In 1982, two of the country's largest grocery chains, Safeway and Kroger, began offering single-use plastic bags to your customers. In fact, as noted in an article published in Sustainability, 51 countries now ban the production, use and sale of plastic bags. Plastic bags have acquired a dominant position due to the need for a cheap and useful way to transport goods. Despite customer preference, retailers preferred single-use plastic bags because of their lower price.
Knight, while working in a paper bag factory in Massachusetts after the Civil War, improved the design of Wolle's bags. The foods you used to carry home in one or two paper bags can now carry five, ten, or more of the flimsy plastic bags. During the 1980s, single-use plastic bags were more critical than just suburban moms irritated because food was slipping in the trunks of their cars. If consumers throw leftover plastic bags in the trash, they end up in a landfill practically forever.
This indicates the decline in the use of plastic bags in the future, which bodes well for global sustainability goals.
