Most people know that its important to recycle plastic bottles and a good number of individuals and businesses participate in a recycling program. Single-use water bottles and plastic bags are causing extensive environmental damage, and yet the use of these items increases daily.

Its vital that both individuals and industry acknowledge their role in making sure that these items do not end up in landfills, floating at the bottom of the ocean, or wrapped around the necks of wildlife or domesticated animals. The obvious answer to this problem is to reduce the number of single use plastic items that end as waste. Recycling and reusing the materials is an excellent alternative, especially if the new products are reusable themselves.

Rebox has added a recycling service for their present and future clients to augment their eco-friendly reusable cardboard box business. Rebox accepts most recyclable goods, and guarantees that none of it will end up in landfills. They will even help your business to set up a waste management plan that can be easily integrated into your manufacturing facilities.

And what becomes of recycled items? If youve seen, people carrying reusable shopping bags with the label I used to be a plastic bottle, you have one answer. Reusable bags are a good example of a disposal problem being transformed into new products. All plastic is coded, and is sorted according to that code after being delivered to the recycling plant. This is a very important part of the process as different grades of plastic can only reused for certain items. For example, #1-PETE (polyethylene terephtahalate) can be processed to use for threaded items such as reusable grocery or shopping bags.

Reusable bags are one of the most publicly visible products resulting from recycling plastic. More and more stores are asking if the customer has brought their own bags, and will charge them if a single use bag must be supplied. In fact, some stores no longer even stock plastic bags. In these places, if you dont bring a reusable bag, you might have a hard time getting your merchandise home.

Bags that are made in a way that guarantees strength and durability, as well as being attractively printed, are less likely to be pushed to the back of the trunk of the car. An added value is that the store that sold the bag can use the printable areas to promote their company.

Many stores have also made the switch over to paper shopping bags. Paper is easily recyclable, and this process can be repeated up to seven times. It is just one other material that Rebox recycles.

Whatever your choice reusable or paper shopping bags Rebox encourages you to limit the amount of single use plastic items. And when you cant avoid it, recycle it. Rebox will take care of the recycling at the manufacturing end, and individuals can take personal responsibility to either reuse, return or recycle.