Paper Bag Day is observed on 12 July each year to spread awareness about using paper bags instead of plastics.
Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021
The adverse impacts of plastic bags on the environment have led to the use of paper bags. Plastic takes years to decompose, whereas paper bags can be reduced and easily recyclable.
Environmental pollution can be curbed using paper bags. People are opting for a sustainable lifestyle and paper bags are biodegradable.
In 1852, an American inventor named Francis Wolle established the first paper bag machine. Later in 1871, Margaret E Knight developed another machine that produced flat-bottom paper bags. She became popular as “the mother of the grocery bag”.
E-commerce firm Flipkart recently eliminated all single-use plastic packaging used across its fulfillment centres in the country and started to use Paper bags.
