Reducing The Cost of Bottle Production Without Compromising Your Product
Plastics: Just the Facts
It doesn’t matter what kind of bottles you need; in today’s strong environmental climate, there is the need to reduce the cost of bottle production without compromising your products and while protecting the environment at the same time. Lightweighting bottles helps this.
Lightweighting bottles is an increasingly common practice by which you reduce and modify your materials’ weights and packaging formats. Market research has also shown that consumers have a positive outlook of lightweighting bottles when you highlight the environment advantages.
As we all know, plastics play an important part of our lives. They appear in a great number of products. In fact, they unfortunately make up some 13 percent of the municipal solid waste stream. According to the EPA, 31 percent of bottles and jars are recycled. The recycling rate for different types of plastic varies greatly, resulting in an overall plastics recycling rate of only nine percent. In 2012, this equated to 2.8 million tons. However, the recycling rate for some plastic products was much higher in 2012 when 31 percent of PET bottles and jars were recycled.
Packaging Costs
In today’s market, packaging make up about 70 percent of the total costs with this number being related to the bottles alone. Distribution and logistics make up 20 percent and production makes up 10 percent. With materials and energy prices rapidly rising, you have to find ways to cut costs. It’s easy to see that packaging is the most critical area of your manufacturing and where you need to apply the lightweighting process.
Lightweighting Bottles to Reduce Costs
Lightweighting bottles is being used to control wasteful packaging. You’re able to reduce your production costs without compromising the product. There are further reductions in your freight costs, pallet optimization, and shelf optimization, so you can ship more products and your customers can make larger purchases because of the greater amounts of available space.
Water bottle and other plastic bottle producers in today’s market are increasingly using lightweighting bottles to reduce costs and improve their environmental footprint. It can often be a market-by-market effort that’s based on your consumer demand and applicable legal requirements.
PET bottles that are lightweighted are fully recyclable. If they do end up in landfills, they degrade without leaching any chemicals into the soil. They also use less energy: the energy used in recycling a PET bottle is about 1/10th of the energy used in recycling a normal plastic bottle.
Lightweighting a bottle has a number of advantages surrounding its reduction costs:
- Lightweighting packaging. – You realize savings on material costs but also on your costs of shipping. The packages also weigh less. You save all the way around.
- Lighter bottles mean less fuel – 3.8 barrels of petroleum are saved when a ton of plastic bottles are recycled.
- Waste materials are diverted from landfills – Landfills are saved from the extra amounts of plastics that have accumulated in them in past years. This is a highly sustainable activity, and also potentially a legal requirement as towns and cities introduce bans preventing the dumping of plastics.
- Reduction of greenhouse emissions – This helps reduce the amount of emitted greenhouse gases.
- Saving landfill space – This saves 6.7 cubic meters of landfill space. Normal bottles take around 500 years to biodegrade.
- Benefits of reuse – When you recycle PET plastics, you save about 12,000 British Thermal Units (BTUs).
The best firm that can develop your PET and other product designs is MJS Packaging. We have the experience and professional expertise to develop your product, even if you only have an idea for a product, and take it to fruition. We can take care of all the steps in between product development, packaging, and marketing until your product reaches the shelves. We understand market dynamics and are a one-stop shop for all your packaging needs. We can give you the product design that will have a stand-out quality to attract customers.
