The article told us about greener packaging - How to give the client a quality product without compromising the environment.

Unfortunately for the paper industry, paper is key to a printed product's carbon footprint, contributing 50-70%. It is therefore, our primary focus in reducing carbon footprint.

We will be able to recycle all our cardboard, paper and paper products as well as plastic bottles, and many others products.

For more information about Hills Group and Waste Management please visit : www.hills-group.co.uk

Ethical Junction has approved our Ethical Statement which confirm our commitment to the environment.

Paper Bag Company actively promote its dedication to its customers, to prevent the use of plastic bags by producing recycled, recycable and re-usable products.

Paper Bags and Cotton Bags have been ordered by exhibiting schools.

Independent Schools Show 2008

Friday 31st October & Saturday 1st November 2008

Our sales team is busier than ever doing quotation for paper bags as well as cotton and jute bags.

We thank you everyone than came to see us and also Richard from Fullworx who did our stand.

Pictures to follow soon....

The aim of Paper Bag Company & Future Bags  is to produce eco-friendly bags rather than plastic bags. We have a strong commitment to the environment and offer to our customers a wide range of Eco-Friendly bags included Paper bags, Cotton bags, Jute bags, Woven PP bags and Non-Woven PP bags.

The paper used to make our bags is recycled or has a certain amount of recycled content. If not, then the virgin paper used comes from sustainable sources where at least one tree is planted for every tree chopped down.

Please do not hesitate to come to see us at

The Top Drawer Autumn Show 2008

Top Drawer Autumn is focused on design, and dedicated to quality

at The Olympia in London.

Paper Bag Company & Future Bags 

will be pleased to answer any of your questions.

Pictures and descriptions of all the types of bags that we can provide as well as accessories will be in it.

Paper Bag Company & Future Bags, making bags for a better world !

With the environment at the forefront of people's minds, developments in recycled papers have also been made. Purchasing paper is a serious business and tends to be largest single part of a publication's production costs, representing around 50%of the total value of the job.

Paper Bag Co sales' team is highly trained to guide you through our products and printing possibility. We also produce in the Uk, Europe and Far East to respond more efficiently to our customers, because each client has different requirements. 

Please visit Paper Bag Co's sister Future Bags at www.futurebags.co.uk to view even more pictures of our range of eco-friendly bags such as Cotton bags, Jute bags, Woven PP bags and Non-woven PP bags.

Do not hesitate to contact us for more information!!

Future Bags has finally its own website. Future Bags is our newborn, created to supply even more alternatives to plastic carrier bags with our large range of eco-friendly re-usable bags included jute, cotton, woven and non-woven. Please visit Future Bags at www.futurebags.co.uk.

Paper as we know it today, comes from China and was invented by T'Sai Ko-Shi (Han Emporor Ho-Ti's). Paper comes from the process of macerating the fibre of plants until each filament is completely separate.

But now, The Exotic Paper Co produces paper from elephant or rhino dung! The Exotic Paper Co was established in 2001 and approved by the National Association of Paper Merchants (NAPM).

Since then, others companies develop the same idea using sheep or reindeer "poo". (www.sheeppoopaper.com)

Tesco, Marks & Spencer, Asda, Sainsbury's were all present, along with Morrisons, Somerfield and the Co-op.

The retailers had already signed up to a voluntary agreement to cut bag use, however the chief executive of one of the big supermarkets said the meeting was a "very heated debate".

Please act against them and take your re-usable bags when shopping to protect our planet.

Please read our article "Why switching to Paper Bags?" (many more other articles are also explaining the damages caused by plastic bags on our Blog News).

You will also be able to meet us there, as we will be exhibited at the event with our whole range of re-usable bags, recycled bags and recyclable bags - Stand G-K53.

The Top Drawer Autumn Show 2008

Sunday 14th September 2008 - Tuesday 16th September 2008

Olympia, London.

We look forward to seeing you there soon!

Global demand remains high, but it is imperative that the UK recovery industry continues to produce a high-quality product in order to remain competitive both at home and abroad.

According to the Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI), more than 50% of recovered paper collected is currently sold and shipped abroad.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has increased its targets for packaging waste recovery for all materials - including paper, glass, aluminium and plastic - to 72% for 2008, 73% for 2009 and 74% for 2010.

Waste Minister Joan Ruddock said : "These increased targets represent our commitment to drive up recycling in Great Britain and tackle dangerous climate change".

Waitrose was the first supermarket to introduce reusable bags, which it sells for 10p, but still hands out 250 million free disposable bags a year to its customers.

Marks & Spencer announced its 5p charge plans for England last year.

Since February 2007, Sainsbury's free bags have been made from 33% recycled plastic.

Tesco, the UK's largest supermarket, allocates reward points to shoppers who re-use bags.

Asda and Morrisons, instructed its cash register operators to offer fewer plastic bags to customers.

Back to November 2007, The Prime Minister Gordon Brown, announced that he would like to "eliminate" single-use plastic bags from Britain. Then in February 2008, he warned retailers he will force them to cut down on plastic bag use if they do not act voluntarily. Today August 2008, most of the UK supermarkets have not eliminated plastic carrier bags and continue to distribute them , free of charge, in large quantities.

London is attempting to ban the millions of disposable shopping bags given by shops each year.

More than 90% of organisations said they wanted a complete, or would support a levy on every bags.

What can you do? Refuse plastic bags in shops and use instead re-usable bags or recycled / recyclable bags.

Please visit our website or contact us for more information.

These towns are Modbury, Girton, Overton, Kew, Aysham, Henfield, Hebden Brige and Tisbury in England. Banchory and Selkirk in Scotland and Hay-on-Wye in Wales.

All of them are using reusable bags which benefit so much our environment.

Many more British's towns (123) are "In the Planning Stages" of plastic bag free those included Bath, Reading, Brighton, Exeter, Kingsbridge, Kensington, Chelsea, Dundee, The Isle of Arran, Newtown etc...

Please switch to reusable bags and save the environment.

So, if it's differentiation you're after - and is there a print buyer who isn't - think of your print job as a dress, and the addition of foil blocking, embossing, UV varnish or any expanding palette of special effects as the way to really get it noticed.

Does that sounds expensive? Think again. Paper Bag Co offers very competitive prices and our sales team is highly trained to guide you through our products and printing solutions. Whether it is a new image you want or just to promote your existing one we offer a personal service to suit your requirements. We can work with your internal marketing department or external design agency to design a bag that will reflect your brand. We can also supply a 3D visual of your design prior to production.

Please contact us to discuss the options available for materials, printing and finishes.

Other quaint workshop language included "Winkle-bag printer" was an insult refferring to a company producing poor quality work.

Around the world, over 200,000 plastic bags are dumped in landfills every hour, where they get into the food chain through animals that ingest small particles of plastic or where they blow away to the oceans and kill aquatic lifes.

Plastic bags stay in the environment for between 500 and 1000 years unlike Paper bags which take about a month to decompose.

Please switch to paper bags and save the environment.

"Look after the eco-system and the animals will look after themselves" from a Hawaiian spokeman.