Paper Packaging

Paper or plastic?  If it comes from the grocery market,  you can carry it home in either of those or your own canvas bag.  But very often, the food itself will be in Paper Packaging.  Most cereals,  dry mixes, even rice, pasta and teas are being manufactured now in cardboard which is a paper product..  True, some still come in tins or plastic, but paper is the most used now. Why?

It is easy to recycle and takes up less bulk that plastic does.  Even frozen foods are often housed in cardboard boxes.  But so are the fruits and vegetables on the way to market. More and more are being shipped in recycled. Paper Packaging that cushions the produce similar to a egg carton. Sometimes they are wrapped in paper as well.  Then they are placed in a cardboard box instead of a wooden crate or barrel as they were less than a generation ago.

Paper is more economical and easier to reuse. Food Packaging has become more strict with the onslaught of consumer protection issues. Granted, the laws do protect us from spoiled, damaged or contaminated foods. 

But the grocery store is not the only place you will find paper used in the packing.  Many parts are packed in corrugated cardboard or reconstituted paper.  When things are in square paper or cardboard boxes,. they can be measured to the correct proportion and boxed up easily. Them those boxes can be stacked and shipped much more efficiently. Nowadays paper packaging is all done in mass production on an assembly line using robotic Packaging Machinery.