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How Plastics Can Help Enhance a Package’s Environmental Performance

HOW PLASTICS CAN HELP enhance a package's environmental performance Many types of plastic packaging help to reduce packaging weight, energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. PLASTICS Substituting a variety of plastics packaging** with non-plastics alter- natives would increase the amount of packaging generated annually in the U.S. by 55 million tons. This means that plastics help to significantly reduce packaging weight, which results in more product shipped with less packaging, fewer trucks on the road, less energy used, less greenhouse gas emissions and less material to recover or recycle. ALT MATERIALS 55 MILLION TONS MORE The use of non-plastics alternatives would increase energy use by 82%, equivalent to the energy from 91 oil tankers. Alternatives would result in 130% PLASTICS more global warming potential. That's like adding 15.7 million cars to our roads. ALTERNATE MATERIALS And most Americans can recycle plastics after use. Over 94% can recycle plastic bottles Over 70% can recycle plastic bags and wraps Over 60% can recycle other plastic containers Plastic packaging's environmental performance continues to improve with increased recycling and recovery. Over 5 billion pounds of plastics were recycled in the United States in 2012. And beyond recycling, innovative technologies are being developed to recover non-recycled plastics by converting them into energy, engineered fuels, and ingredients for new products. For more information, visit PlasticPackagingFacts.org Study: "Impact of Plastics Packaging on Life Cycle Energy Consumption & Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the United States and Canada," Franklin Associates, 2014. For recycling statistics see: http://plastics.americanchemistry.com/education-resources/publications. *Alternative materials include glass, paper/cardboard packaging products, steel, and aluminum. **The study assessed the energy requirements and greenhouse gas emissions of six general categories of plastic packaging produced and sold in the United States and Canada. These include caps and closures, beverage containers, other rigid containers, carrier bags, stretch/shrink wrap, and other flexible packaging.

How Plastics Can Help Enhance a Package’s Environmental Performance

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A visual look how many types of plastic packaging help to reduce packaging weight,energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.

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