Paper Bag

3.0 Product Plan

3.1 Introduction about the Product Paper Bag

What is paper bag?

A paper bag or paper sack is a preformed container made of paper, usually with an opening on one side. It can be one layer of paper or multiple layers of paper and other flexible materials. A bag is used forpackaging and/or carrying items.

Paper bag can be defined into many types:

Single layer

Many shopping bags, paper grocery bags, or other light duty bags have a single layer of paper. A variety of constructions and designs are available. Many are printed with the names of stores and brands.

Multiwall

Multiwall (or multi-wall) paper sacks or shipping sacks, are often used as shipping containers for bulk materials as fertilizer, animal feed, sand, dry chemicals, flour and cement. Many have several layers of sack papers, printed external layer and inner plies. Some paper sacks have polyethyelene foil or polyethylene coated paper layer in between as water-repellant barrier.

There are two basic design of bags: open mouth bags and valve bags. Open mouth bag is a tube of paper plies with only one bottom end sealed by the paper sack producer. The bag is filled though the open month and then closed by stitching, adhesive, or tape. Valve bags have both bottom ends closed and are filled through a valve. A typical example of valve bag is the cement sacks.

In year of 1990~2010 the increase of green house in the world are rapidly growth, one of the factor is the usage of plastic bag in the daily life. Plastic bags are everywhere! Every day, we are handed countless plastic bags when we go to the grocery store, retail clothing store, book store, restaurants, etc, as the result this will drag to disaster and green house effect.

As the solution to keep environment and green house effects we are introduce you the reusable paper bags to the consumer and the problem due to counter back the list of problem below. Here are a few facts about plastic bags to help...