Packaging accounted for over 30 percent solid municipal waste in the U.S.A in 1990. When the figure was publicized for the first time, it caused the society and industry to introspect and to look for new ways to reduce this waste.

Solid waste goes to landfills. Landfill area is basically useless. The earth on a landfill cannot be used for agriculture and other constructive purposes. It takes a long time to reclaim the land that has once been a landfill. Besides, landfills are expensive, which is why the government avoids digging more of them.

With packaging accounting for nearly a third of municipal solid waste, and landfills filling fast; a quick method to delay landfills from filling to their capacity is to use landfill-friendly packaging.

Stand up pouch bags are a landfill-friendly packaging method. By this we mean that unlike glass jars, plastic bottles, and tin cans; pouch bags take a minuscule amount of space in a landfill. In other words, more stand up bags can fit inside a landfill than other popular packaging mediums.

For cities and governments, it means that existing landfills last longer if stand up bags are used. Simply put, the use of standup pouches eliminates the need to dig more pits. It leaves more land open to human use.