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API's Environmental Responsibility

At Advanced Polybag, we are mindful of our responsibility to the environment and the stewardship it demands for a better world. As a company, we demonstrate environmental responsibility by our commitment to the initiatives of Recover, Reuse, Reduce and Recycle with our retail customers through a variety of programs.

Recycling is an essential element of sustainability and as such is a key component of API's waste management program. API's products are produced primarily from polyethylene resin, a material with excellent recycling potential. Waste from the manufacturing process is converted into new products in order to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, and lower greenhouse gas emissions.

Consumers, too, have an influential role in determining end-of-life scenarios for the plastic carrier bags. If used plastic bags are responsibly placed in a recycling bin (as opposed to a trash bin), the bags can be converted into new bags, with no landfill disposal required.

With proper recycling, plastic bags provide the most efficient, economical and sanitary means of conveying purchases from the store to the home, where they can be recycled or reused.

By our support of retail recycling programs,

• the cost of new products made from these plastics is reduced.
• the cost of waste disposal is reduced.
• virgin resources are conserved.
• fewer raw materials are used to manufacture packaging.
• less energy is required to produce recycled packaging.
• less fuel is used to transport and remove it.
• greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are reduced (reduced carbon footprint).
• a vibrant recycle industry infrastructure is maintained.