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How to select the correct Garbage Bag – Can Liner

Janitorial Supplies Michigan, Tennessee, Wisconsin – Amerisource Industrial Supply

Garbage Bag – Can Liner Keys

  1. Select the smallest thinnest bag that does not significantly fail to carry the trash to the collection container
    1. Remember you are buying a block of plastic that happens to be blown into bags.  The weight of the case is the most important indication of what you are buying
    2. Manufacturers cheat the spec and the case does not always contain what the label says.  The weight never lies.
  2. Most people use too big and too thick a liner
    1. Most common liner is a 38×58 liner that only fits a empty steel drum.  Have you seen any 5ft tall garbage cans?
    2. If you gather the top of the bag and pull it will have it’s maximum strength.  A 1 mil bag will pull more than 75lbs of trash.  How many of you can pull that weight up with your arms over your head?
  3. What type of trash
    1. Sharp objects – must use LLDPE
    2. General trash use HDPE – less plastic for the same pull strength
  4. How do you want them packed
    1. Flat bulk pack – if case is damaged they can get wasted
    2. Coreless rolls – 10-25 in a nice compact roll for easy dispensing and use

                                                               i.      Drop one in the bottom of the can for easy replacement