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How about a better bag? Roplast’s high quality Bring Back Bag® is more practical than single-use paper or T-shirt bags. With proper training our bags can save money at front-end and provide an effective promotion vehicle for advertising. Our bags can be filled with more grocery items and heavier loads than paper or plastic bags of comparable size and volume. Roplast’s waterproof plastic bags provide safe passage for frozen food, heavy beverage containers and other moisture prone grocery items that result in the expensive practice of double bagging paper bags. | |
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| | A Supply Cost Into A Profit Center
Many grocery stores are successfully selling our high quality Bring Back Bag® to their customers. Customers have the option of reusing their bag many times over or purchasing a new bag. Revenue generated by selling bags rather than providing them for free not only eliminates supply costs, but adds a profit center to your store. | |
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| | Environmentally Safe Product
Plastic bags are an environmentally safe product to produce. The majority of Kraft paper is made by heating wood chips under pressure at high temperatures in a chemical solution. As evidenced by the unmistakable stench commonly associated with paper mills, the use of these toxic chemicals contributes to both air pollution, such as acid rain, and water pollution. Millions of gallons of these toxic chemicals pour into our waterways each year. These chemicals settle into the sediment and eventually work their way through the food chain. The West German government compared paper grocery sack production with the plastic manufacturing process and found: - Paper sacks generate 70% more air pollutants.
- Paper sacks produce 50 times more water pollutants.Source: “Comparison of the Effects on the Environment of Polyethylene and Paper Carrier Bags,” Federal Office of the Environment, August 1988.
- Paper bags are heavy and have a greater cube than plastic. It takes seven trucks to deliver the quantity of paper bags contained in one truckload of plastic bags.
- The production, transportation and double bagging of paper leaves a higher carbon footprint than high quality plastic bags.
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