Mail order and internet packaging

Smith Bateson has recently been very successful in supplying plain and printed packaging for online orders. Mailing bags and luxury boxes are tailored to clients’ specific requirements, for example:

  • Various plain stock sizes available
  • Printed up to 8 colours
  • CO-EX / LDPE / HDPE / recycled material

If you would like to discuss any particular requirements please contact us on 0151 547 1801.

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Plastic bags greener than cotton bags says “suppressed” Government report

Cotton bags are no greener than plastic bags, according to new Government research published today

Liz Gyekye, February 22, 2011

Packaging industry bodies have welcomed the long-awaited report from the Environment Agency, entitled Life Assessment of Supermarket Carrier Bags. It has found that ordinary high density polythene bags used by retailers are greener than supposedly low impact choices.

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Speak The Science Bin The Spin

1: EXPERT VIEWS AND THE SCIENCE THAT GETS IN THE WAY OF SPIN

The Government is irresponsible to jump on a bandwagon that has no base in scientific evidence. This is one of many examples where you get bad science leading to bad decisions which are counter-productive. Attacking plastic bags makes people feel good but it doesn’t achieve anything. Lord Taverne, Chairman of Sense about Science, March 2008, The Times

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