Using the variety of offered sized of food containers, prepared in accordance with the mass and the individual demand, we seek for practicalness and convenience. Undoubtedly these are the leading criteria but it is also good to mention the other side of things – and in particular what benefits and negatives this has over health and what is the extend to which we pay attention to recycling and environmental protection.

 

Mainly due to the change in the everyday working process at a greater part of the different industries, and the schedules that get more and more overloaded, using things like plastic containers and boxes is more important because it saves time. We prefer drinking our coffee at work in a plastic cup, because we have just got it from the nearest cafeteria or coffee machine. We cover our food with foil and preserve it in plastic containers. If you think a bit more, we carry clothes in which there is a type of artificial plastic threads. Not to mention the debit and credit cards that are now an everyday item that we use for shopping.

 

Plastic turns out to be a product of various applications that could be enumerated in a long list. It even has an application in the vascular surgery, and this is something that could tell you a lot about its wide range of mass usage.

 

Therefore it is important to pay attention how good quality it is and that it should not be harmful to the health. It is exactly in this respect where knowledge and concern of the customer as being the end user comes ahead. There are certain standards to which plastic containers should meet, in accordance with the European directives and the local regulations, and the users should file a signal if they have any concern that these regulations have not been kept. If they notice that the respective symbols that need to present on the label are missing, if there is a problem that could appear during storing the food, it is their job to inform the respective authorities that there might be incorrect traders. Even though it is not a common practice, which is the positive side in the case, but there are still some traders that are trying to earn money using wrong and illegal actions.

 

But in general, when the plastic food packages for multiple and for single use are produced qualitatively and all the necessary requirements have been kept, for sure they do not present danger to our health and when the users are willing to be informed, they know what they should look at and what they should be careful about.

 

Environmental protection also depends on people, too. Even if the manufacturers produce packages that are for recycling, it is the task of the end user to dispose them where appropriate. That is why separating the garbage is important – because protecting the environment and taking care of it have an inevitable effect over our health and our quality of life. When we take care of nature, it also takes care of us and returns everything in double. When we do not pay attention to the nature while surrounded by the comfort of our home and city, it is for sure that the nature will not withstand as long as we might think. On the contrary – it is our obligation to be as kind to it as the nature is towards us.