Plastic Cups – What can you get?
The most common use for a plastic cup is beverage service, but it is more often used for yogurt, fruit salad and muesli / dried fruit serving. It follows that disposable cups are popular in juice bars, cafes, pubs, clubs and health bars.
There are two popular kinds of plastic cups to cater for different tastes & budges. PP (polypropylene) and PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic cups are strong, tough and resistant to heat, and is made from premium food grade materials.
PET Plastic Cup
PET cups are completely transparent and are used to improve the presentation of your beverage or food item. PP and PET Plastic Cups are very similar to look at, but the former is slightly heavier and more rigid. Depending on the processing and thermal history of plastic cups can be synthesized by the reaction between terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol with water as a byproduct. Commentary published in Environmental Health Perspectives in April 2010 suggested that endocrine disruptors may yield under conditions of common use of PET cups.
When recycled PET plastic cups are sorted into different colours, and baled for resale. PET recyclers also sort the packaged bottles and they are washed and flaked (or flaked and washed). Non-PET fractions as caps and labels are removed during this process. The clean flake is dried. Further treatment may occur, eg melt filter and pelletising or different treatments to produce food contact recycled PET (RPET) approved. Worldwide, the approximately 5.8 million tons of PET collected in 2009.
PP Plastic Cup
On the other hand, a PP plastic cup of a rubbery feel, and is softer and more flexible. This cup is largely transparent, and ideal for price conscious consumers. Other products commonly used in the food packaging industry from PP made include plastic collection containers. Most commercial polypropylene is isotactic. Polypropylene is usually tough and flexible, especially when copolymerized ethylene. It makes polypropylene used as an engineering plastic, compete with materials such as ABS.
Clear plastic cups are used for strong, reliable and superior presentation of your drinks, yoghurt or fruit salad. These cups are expertly designed to bend or caving when full, which reduces the risk of spilling. Plastic cups are available with a range of flat straw-slotted or plastic dome lids. Plastic cups and plastic lids are fully recyclable.
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This article was created by Creative Development, an internet marketing agency based in Sydney. We created this article to promote and Plastic Cups by Wholesale Direct.
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