Ecobag Network paper bag – paper, printing and the natural environment

Ecobag Network paper bag – paper, printing and the natural environment

We print on eco paper bags using flexo technology. We use water-based inks that are safe for the environment and for the staff of our factories in the production process.

We prepare water-based flexo paints in our own automated mixing room. This improves the economic result and also significantly reduces waste, because we use cleaning cloths and plastic buckets many times. The base paints used in our mixing room come from a European supplier who ensures that the paint ingredients do not contain heavy metals and other undesirable, dangerous chemical pollutants, of natural or industrial origin.

Thanks to the use of water-based paints, we avoid the evaporation of alcohols, which is dangerous to the health of employees. The paper bag is designed for recycling processes after use. Once the paints dry on paper, they do not pose any environmental hazards. A paper bag decomposes quickly when exposed to water or a landfill.

Plastic bags that enter the natural environment pose a threat to small and large animals. Their digestive tracts become clogged, which leads to suffering and then to slow death by hunger. A plastic bag takes about 450 years to decompose, and micro-plastics, after the bag disintegrates, end up in groundwater and living creatures. Palsique is a threat to current and future generations of our planet’s fauna and flora, including humans. We drink water contaminated with micro-plastics, and we also eat plants and animals whose bodies accumulate plastic during their lives.

The paper dissolves so it does not clog the digestive tracts of animals and does not accumulate in groundwater. Moreover, recycling paper is much safer for the environment than recycling plastic.

Paper bags do not clog manholes in cities during downpours like plastic bags. A clogged water drainage system during monsoon periods is a real problem causing local floods and flooding in many Asian countries. Flash floods in urban areas, caused by clogging of sewage systems by plastic bags, cause significant economic losses and many human deaths.

Photos and reports from polluted tropical beaches and river deltas around the world show how much of the waste there is plastic. We can’t turn back time, but there is still a lot that can be done. Fortunately, a lot has already been done in this direction, both legally and through education. Consumers’ increasing awareness forces them to adapt to their expectations, because no one wants to identify with a brand that does not care about the clean future of mankind, fauna and flora. Taking care of the good condition of nature, safe food and water, as well as the aesthetics of our surroundings has become an important business value.