Packaging:
Back in the day when baking powder was first invented, the shipment of baking powder was cheap and environmentally friendly. Back then, paper bags were used to carry the sodium bicarbonate to sell to people (Sodium bicarbonate, 2006).
As time passed on, the process of shipping sodium bicarbonate had evolved and there are new ways to deliver the product. The finished product would be inside a box, tin can with a plastic lid, plastic bag, or plastic jar. According to World Shipping Council, trucks and ships were used to carry the packaged product and is safely distributed throughout the world.
Nowadays, the technology is improving and creating new and easier ways to do tasks. Also, there are websites where people could buy items from websites and have the item shipped within a few days, weeks, or months to arrive depending on the person selling the item. For example: Ebay.com is an online shopping store.
All these different ways to get baking powder shipped is still used in the current time period. Due to the amount of plastic that is used to make the containers to hold the product, there is a lot of landfill building up and still continues to grow. This problem is caused because of the amount of plastic containers people would throw away. Plastic takes about 450 years to decompose into the ground (O' Connor, 2011). Not only is this problem bad for Earth and it's environments that are being destroyed, this would also be a problem for manufacturers and companies because it would be bad for business.
Back in the day when baking powder was first invented, the shipment of baking powder was cheap and environmentally friendly. Back then, paper bags were used to carry the sodium bicarbonate to sell to people (Sodium bicarbonate, 2006).
As time passed on, the process of shipping sodium bicarbonate had evolved and there are new ways to deliver the product. The finished product would be inside a box, tin can with a plastic lid, plastic bag, or plastic jar. According to World Shipping Council, trucks and ships were used to carry the packaged product and is safely distributed throughout the world.
Nowadays, the technology is improving and creating new and easier ways to do tasks. Also, there are websites where people could buy items from websites and have the item shipped within a few days, weeks, or months to arrive depending on the person selling the item. For example: Ebay.com is an online shopping store.
All these different ways to get baking powder shipped is still used in the current time period. Due to the amount of plastic that is used to make the containers to hold the product, there is a lot of landfill building up and still continues to grow. This problem is caused because of the amount of plastic containers people would throw away. Plastic takes about 450 years to decompose into the ground (O' Connor, 2011). Not only is this problem bad for Earth and it's environments that are being destroyed, this would also be a problem for manufacturers and companies because it would be bad for business.