Imagine about a visit to one of your close by super market stores. And when you checked for your stuff, surprisingly you found a bizarre of new things. Stuff which are packed quite differently than the way you have expected them to be. Your favorite chicken wings packed in the vacuum sealed pouch instead of tin canes, noodles in flexible films and there are no more jars for your favorite jelly and jams. Instead they are packed into more attractive squeeze bottles.
The way plastics are used these days, they have changed the way we used to live years back. Plastic packaging has played a crucial role in carving out a new eating style in our lives. There was a time when you cannot afford to store anything longer than a day or two. However now it is more kind of a night mare as we have already woke up from our sleep. In a recent survey conducted worldwide, it was found out that one third of the total food produced for consumption goes to waste pertaining to different factors and one of the major ones among these is the low shelf life period for the eatables. Imagine one third of the food products going to waste which is equivalent to the fact that one out of three persons starve every day.
With the gradual technological progress and increased standards and norm set for maintaining the quality of the eatables today even a simple packaged stuff can remain fresh as long as for two weeks. For instance a cucumber tends to lose 3.4% of water during its shelf like period of 2 days but the cucumber will not lose more than .04% of water during a shelf life period of 2 weeks if packaged using the modern technology. You can easily see the difference. And the important part is that today we have brought the food wastage percentage to 4.3% which earlier used to be in the range of 14-21%.
One of the important advantages of enhanced plastic packaging is that it has helped in increasing the shelf life of the eatable commodities. And this allows us to store even bulk commodities like precooked bacon. Not only do the plastic help in extending the life expectancy of the food product but they also conserve the nutrients value of the food. And with the growing demand of ready to eat food stuffs the use of plastics have gone to a whole new level of innovation. As FIFA is already on full swing therefore there is an increased demand for chicken wings, one of the favorites in United States and United Kingdom. According to an estimate there are already around 1.4 million chicken wings ready to hit the stores. But it became possible only because of the enhanced plastic packaging. Same is the case with medicines. There are drugs and medicines which a decade back would have never been made available to the patients in different parts of the world pertaining to the fact that the innovation they needed for transportation was lacking but now with the help of plastic material most of these medicines today are available to all the patients in different parts of the world.
Therefore it would not be wrong to conclude that the magic of plastic has changed the way we used to live earlier. Get in touch with us for more on plastic packaging at Twitter, Facebook or visit our site to check for some of the most innovative plastic packaging.
