Nowadays, markets are mostly flooded with a great variety of plastic bottles with eye-catching designs. The customers are getting innumerable choices to select from. However, selecting the correct size and shape can make you feel overwhelming. Therefore, while selecting the plastic bottles, there are certain areas you would require focusing on. This consideration is, more importantly, significant if you would carry juice or other beverages in that bottle. You would undoubtedly desire to buy a bottle that’s safe for your products and durable. If you are ready to buy a 1 liter plastic bottle, here are some important tips and tricks for choosing and handling your foremost inventory of plastic bottles.
What to Consider When Purchasing Plastic Bottles?
There are various types of plastic bottle manufacturers: some of them only manufacture plastic bottles, whereas others customize the bottle according to your requirements. Following are the top 5 things to consider before selecting the right plastic bottle for you:
- Food Safe/BPA Free
BPA, or Bisphenol, is an industrial chemical that is utilized to make resins and plastic-based products. Plastic bottle manufacturers are using this chemical ingredient since the 1960s, but more current research has proved that these chemicals are capable of leaching the liquids and food contained in the affected plastic bottles. Moreover, exposure to BPA can also affect potential health hazards, especially for infants and unborn children. Hence, before buying the bottle, ensure that it's BPA-free and safe for carrying beverages.
2. Packing
If you are thinking of buying a 1 liter plastic bottle, make sure that these are being packed in the full carton by the manufacturers. Also, confirm that after the removal of the plastic bottle from mould, to prevent the attraction of various debris and dust, these are getting instantly packed into the polybags. Therefore, to ensure the intactness and safety of the bottles, the manufacturers must pack them in a full carton.
3. Reusable
There are various plastic bottles available in the market that is not reusable, especially the one which we buy with cold drinks, or mineral waters are meant for one-time use. Hence, while selecting plastic bottle 500ML, make sure that there’s no triangle mark with a “1” numbering is not there on its bottom because this mark signifies that the bottle is of use and throw category and refilling the bottle is not suggested by the manufacturers. Because reusing such bottles may lead to the leaching of harmful carcinogenic components, which can get mixed with the liquid that you would carry inside the bottle. Therefore, the plastic bottles you would buy for daily use must be reusable and get different ways of reuse plastic bottles.
4. Type of Plastic
Different manufacturers use different types of plastic for their products. All these types serve some definite purpose and are appropriate for some specific category of contents. Often the manufacturers use some particular food-grade plastic for packaging various food items. Moreover, fluorinated plastic bottles are essential for certain solvents and chemicals. So, pay attention to the type of plastic that has been used for the manufacturing of plastic bottles.
5. Design
Plastic bottles that are available in the market are either with closures or without closures. While some manufacturers only sell the bottles with closures, many of them would also offer you an option to select from their wide variety of available closures. Besides, you can also buy bottles without closures and later purchase the closures separately according to your purpose and preference. Also, there are ready-made bottles and custom-designed bottles. These bottles can be of different plastic and sizes. However, if you require custom-designed bottles, various manufacturers would delightfully customize the bottle based on your choice.
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