MetroMan
Senior Member
^ You're referring to China. I don't know if China is still considered a 3rd world country but you're story comes from China. Plastic bags are banned, at least in parts of China.
Packaging as a whole needs to be focused on in general.
A tube of toothpaste is made out of petroleum based plastics and rubbers plus metal linings and a cap made out of a different type of plastic. The tube comes in a cardboard box, sometimes wrapped in cellophane.
The correct direction is demonstrated by the new style toothpaste containers. They're made up of 2 parts of the same type of hard plastic (Type 1 - Polyethylene Terephthalate "PETE"). The whole container can be disposed as one piece and gets 100% recycled.
Some brands didn't get the point and still wrap the whole thing in a plastic enclosure but it'll eventually get worked out.
Packaging as a whole needs to be focused on in general.
A tube of toothpaste is made out of petroleum based plastics and rubbers plus metal linings and a cap made out of a different type of plastic. The tube comes in a cardboard box, sometimes wrapped in cellophane.
The correct direction is demonstrated by the new style toothpaste containers. They're made up of 2 parts of the same type of hard plastic (Type 1 - Polyethylene Terephthalate "PETE"). The whole container can be disposed as one piece and gets 100% recycled.
Some brands didn't get the point and still wrap the whole thing in a plastic enclosure but it'll eventually get worked out.