Customizing Paper Bags: An Art with Many Advantages

Paper is here to stay

As you probably know, one of the most common uses of BigStamping stamps is customizing paper bags. This material has become much more common on the market in recent years, which gives us a chance to address an issue that worries both our customers and us, in our role as stamp makers. We’re talking about climate change, a problem we suffer from because of the mass-consumption model we’ve adopted as a society over the last 50 years, which causes enormous levels of environmental pollution.
It’s a problem that affects all of us, and one we all have to work on, but in recent years, because of their role as manufacturers or suppliers of products, many brands have decided to make changes in this regard.
One of those changes is relying more and more on paper bags and reducing the use of plastic bags to increasingly insignificant levels. It may seem like a very simple gesture, but the reality is that using paper bags brings many advantages, both for the environment and for brands.

Reduce your environmental footprint with paper bags

Using paper bags helps reduce CO2 emissions. This is possible because paper absorbs carbon dioxide emissions, which, unlike the manufacture of plastic bags, helps reduce pollution.
Oil is one of the main materials plastic bags are made from, and besides being an increasingly scarce raw material, it is one of the main contributors to climate change.
Although it may seem contradictory to say that using paper benefits the environment, the truth is that paper production is encouraging reforestation, and this, in turn, is reducing environmental pollution.

Choosing paper

Besides cutting emissions, using paper bags also supports the recycling and sustainability policies needed to ease the effects of climate change. Unlike plastic bags, which take an average of 150 to 1,000 years to decompose, paper is a biodegradable material that, besides being easy to recycle hundreds of times, doesn’t have the same impact as plastic if it ends up in forests, seas or rivers.
Paper bags also cost far less to make than plastic bags and, of course, they are much less deadly to animals.

Using and customizing paper bags: Nothing but advantages

As you can see, and as you surely already knew, using paper bags brings countless advantages. And not only when it comes to avoiding the impact on animals and the environment in general (remember that microplastics are a serious problem we have to deal with today), but also when it comes to saving money. Recycling plastic bags, which also contain highly toxic inks, costs 100 times more than producing new ones, and that’s why most end up incinerated, releasing gases in the process, or, even worse, trapping animals.
That said, it’s clear that paper is the way to go, but using it can also benefit us as a brand, not just by conveying an “eco-friendly” company image, but by helping us highlight messages or spread our brand through packaging and wrapping that, besides being cheaper, help build customer loyalty. Here’s how!

The importance of customizing your paper bags

Besides being less polluting, paper bags are easier to customize than plastic bags. All you need are a few simple tools, which we offer a little further down, and with which you’ll get your brand onto all your paper bags and cardboard boxes (packaging), improving your brand image and, without a doubt, earning more positive responses from your customers.
How is that achieved? Easily. By using custom paper bags, you get these 5 benefits right away:

1. Improve your brand image by being sustainable and helping the environment
2. Catch potential customers’ attention with the design
3. Make your product more appealing, since it looks handcrafted
4. Boost your customers’ desire to buy with the way it looks
5. Make your brand memorable in a positive way.

What are you waiting for? Ditch plastic bags and start customizing your paper bags.

BigStamping: Large stamps for customizing your paper bags

We hope the information we’ve shared with you has been useful and interesting, but beyond that, here at BigStamping, as we mentioned a little further up, we offer you the perfect tool for customizing your paper bags.
We specialize in making large stamps, along with kits that include everything you need to customize your paper bags in a big way. With our stamps, you can forget about minimum quantities and get great results at the best price.
If you still have questions, feel free to let us know, but first, we recommend taking a stroll through our “Tips” section, a part of our website where, besides explaining how to use our products, we give you tricks and suggestions on how to use our stamps on surfaces as varied as wood, walls or fabrics.

Visit those sections, and start giving your brand more visibility in an eco-friendly and affordable way.