So you have an occasion you are celebrating and thinking of getting personalized glass candy jars for the celebrant. You go ahead and pick a beautiful design along with a message to make it personal, unique and customized. Now it’s time to pick the material for the candy jar-what would it be? Glass or Plastic? A good choice of material would be glass.
There are many reasons why you should choose on buying glassware to keep your food items as opposed to using plastic. Some of these reasons are related to first and foremost, your health and next comes the environment as well as the taste. When buying containers to keep food, remember that you want the food items to stay fresh and to not be contaminated by elements from the outside of the container. Little do we know that the materials that are used in making those containers also affect and could contaminate the contents inside it.
Such is the case with personalized glass candy jars and plastic ones. Before we get into the whole not-good-for-health-and environment thing, let’s just take a look at designs. Glass candy jars offer a more beautiful and aesthetically pleasing design and shape. Glass gives the impression of elegance and style whereas plastic just makes it look a little cheap. Sure plastic works great on sports bottles and the like but not on candy jars. You would also want to choose glass candy jars since they are translucent, enabling anyone to view the contents inside the jar. Of course, plastic also enables this viewing option but glass gives certain sheen to the contents.
Another reason to choose glass candy jars over plastic because of the threat of many different harmful compounds that are used into creating plastic containers. Plastic in the form of PVC is the most dangerous of all. PVC is polyvinyl chloride and this form of plastic distributes pollutants that can cause several defects in our bodily system such as infertility, cell and organ destruction as well as tissue damage. Apart from PVC is Bisphenol which is often related to causing abnormal fetal and chromosomes development, Down syndrome as well as obesity.
Another reason to not use plastics for your personalized glass candy jar is the fact that candy jars are placed outside cabinets or shelves where no sunlight can come in. Candy jars are for the purpose of eating food items right out from the jar. Some candy jars and other food containers are exposed to sunlight and if its glass, there would not be dangerous chemicals released. But plastic that is exposed to even sunlight or heat for a long period of time will secrete harmful chemicals and make their way into the food.
Last but not least, glass also helps saves the environment. Plastic takes a very long time to disintegrate and even more chemicals are used to recycle them. Plastic also has a shorter lifetime than that of a glass candy jar- provided it is not broken. You would be doing the earth and Mother Nature a whole load of favor by opting to make your personalized glass candy jar in glass rather than in plastic.
Kim is the author of Discountmugs.com. If you would like more information about Candy Jars, please visit http://www.discountmugs.com.
Kim is the author of Discountmugs.com. If you would like more information about Candy Jars, please visit http://www.discountmugs.com.
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