The Convenience that Plastics Provide Us

We always talk about the harms of plastics, but what about their benefits?

 

First of all, plastic plays a crucial role in transportation and packaging applications due to its light weight and in building insulation, which helps prevent energy waste. By reducing excessive energy consumption, plastic also helps to reduce the emission of toxic gases into the atmosphere.

 

Plastic materials provide versatile savings in the packaging of food and consumer goods;

 

Using plastic materials for packaging of food and consumer goods saves energy and minimizes volume and weight. If plastics didn't exist, the average weight of packaging would increase fourfold, the energy consumption for producing these packages would double, and the volume of these packages would increase by two and a half times.