Talk:Plastic wrap
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[edit] Alternatives?
Blissfulpain: Just wondering if there is an environmentally firendly alternative to plastic wrap? After some googling i can't seem to find much on the subject... biodegradable plastic bags, but no biodegradable plastic wrap. I'll keep looking and report back if i find something about it
This is CB Kam of Fine Vantage Limited. We are making LDPE plastic wrap so I think I can share some of my thoughts with you and I hope that can help.
There are two kind of plastic wrap, PVC and PE. You can run a search on Google about PVC and you will notice that it is both toxic and not environmental friendly. PVC is very popular in food catering (supermarket and hotel use) application. For the household plastic wrap, many consumers prefer PE. It is the safest plastic to use in terms of both food grade and environmental impact.
Given said, even though it is common to recycle PE, there is not too many people recycle plastic wrap. It is because the film is already very thin in gauge and there is not much tonnage if you try to recycle plastic wrap. You can find your recycle effort much more effective when you try to recycle your shampoo bottles.
There is also not such a thing about bio-degradable plastic wrap. It is because plastic wrap demands a very high tensile strength film property and haze free finished products. The overall plastic wrap global tonnage is relatively small and it won't justify to create a PE resin that is both bio-degradable and suitable to make PE plastic wrap.
We in Fine Vantage are trying to make the product safer to use so we are offering Food Grade unit box with ink that has no heavy metal on our products. We educate our supermarket buyers whenever we have a chance.
If you are much concern about plastic wrap in terms of environmental issues and food hygience, I strongly suggest you to stay away from PVC film (catering and household) and buy only PE base plastic wrap. You may want to express your concerns with your favorite supermarket. Maybe he will do something about it.
Thank you and I hope you find my explaination useful.
Best Regards,
cbkam@finevantage.com
[edit] Glad wrap
Isn't it the case that this is commonly known as 'Glad wrap' in Australia and New Zealand, because the leading brand is so prevalent. In fact I believe it is a problem, in that the Glad company is constantly trying to prevent their trademark becoming genericised (see for example this partial article). I would have thought some mention of these issues should be made. -- Solipsist 09:39, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Image added
I have added a photo of a roll of plastic wrap to the article. It took me all of 15 minutes to make, and it sure shows, but it should do in the absence of anything better. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 01:23, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Overprecise!
"...roughly 0.006" (152.4μm) thick". Hmm. I think 150μm is "roughly" enough. In fact I think 0.15mm means more to most people than 150μm. Changed. 143.252.80.110 14:27, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "Glad Wrap" in Australia
Hello good people. This is my very first contribution, so please bear with me, but I do have a personal knowledge on this subject. I worked for nin years with Douglas Lyons Ford, the person who claimed to have invented "Glad Wrap" in Australia. My knowledge of the product comes from personal communication to me from Dr Ford.
The product was never made from PVC - it was always polyethylene blow-molded with a "stickifier" and slit into rolls. To the best of my knowledge, plasticized PVC has always had health concerns and was not initially given 21 CFR (FDA) approval for food contact. Poly was an equally cheap alternative with approval for food contact. Although Doug developed the product in Australia, he was an employee of Union Carbide, an American company. It was therefore necessary to consider the potential for a new product developed in Australia to be saleable in the United States. The product has been available in Australia since the mid-1960's and it was the first retailed sticky plastic film in Australia, but there were earlier plastic films - maybe these were PVC?
I do have more on the Australian Glad Wrap story, but would appreciate some comments please.
Skelta 20:49, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Pranks?
I recently removed the mention of a prank (involving plastic wrap stretched over a toilet bowl) from the article, as I do not feel it is relevant to an encyclopedia article on plastic wrap. User:WikiMan78 apparently disagrees. I still feel it is irrelevant trivia, but at this point I'd like to request a third opinion so as not to turn this into an "is not!" / "is too!" argument. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 09:33, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
- If it even deserves a mention at all (and I'm not so sure it does), it doesn't warrant having its own section. Bloodshedder 19:58, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
- I'll say I think it's an unnecessary addition that doesn't have a lot of relevence to the subject matter. There are a lot of plastic wrap pranks. Are we going to start listing them all? If anything, a bare one line mention is all it should get. --Lendorien 22:22, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
- Thirding it here and removing it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.81.127.21 (talk) 19:40, 11 February 2007 (UTC).
