Hinged plastic boxes are one of the best choices you can make when storing items, for protecting them, and when transporting them. Plastic resists both corrosion and high temperatures, it is generally durable, it is low cost, and it is lightweight. For these reasons, plastic is one of the most popular materials of choice when it come to selecting a storage box, whether for use at home or on the job.
A major advantage of hinged lid plastic boxes is that you are not likely to ever lose the lid, since it is attached. We have all known the frustration of looking for the cover of a particular storage box, only to discover it’s nowhere to be found. Well that really cannot happen when the cover is always attached.
Hinged plastic storage boxes vary in sizes that range from relatively tiny boxes used for carrying pills and other medication, to boxes that are the size of a small trunk for holding larger, bulkier items, or a collection of smaller items.
Types Of Hinged Plastic Boxes
Plastic boxes with hinged lids are usually available in a great deal of different sizes, shapes, colors, and designs, and can serve both a functional and a decorative purpose. One popular style is equipped with a snap lock and typically comes in the following shapes and designs:
Square Boxes
Square Plastic Boxes, as the name indicates, are equal in both length and width, and they are usually available in a variety of sizes. This is one of the most common storage box shapes, and can basically accommodate almost anything you need to store.
Rectangular Boxes
Rectangular plastic boxes are the perfect shape for all those items that are long and narrow. Small hinged plastic boxes are particularly useful for things like envelopes, index cards, and the like. Larger size boxes can handle files, paperwork, etc. Of course, both square and rectangular boxes, if they are large enough, can store books, clothes, towels, tablecloths, linens, and almost anything else you can think of that you might need to store.
Round Boxes
Round plastic storage boxes are great for storing all those things that just don’t fit right in a regular square or rectangular box, although they are sort of a specialty item, since rectangular and square boxes are easier to make and to ship.
Plastic Match-Boxes
Hinged plastic match boxes are especially useful for all the little things that are easy to misplace.
Partitioned Boxes
Partitioned boxes are great for grouping and storing items in their own individual compartments. You can group nails or screws according to their size and assign each size its own compartment. You can store paper clips of varying size the same way. They work well for jewelry, safety pins, thumbtacks, pushpins, and so many other things. Partitioned boxes provide the opportunity for a complete organizing system. The benefit of this kind of box is that what you store stays separated. If you are using hinged clear plastic boxes, then your stored items will also be visible and identifiable without having to open the boxes, which is an added benefit. These kind of boxes are not limited in their usefulness to just small items. A box that is large enough and strong enough can also contain larger and heavier objects, while at the same time offer protection for more delicate and fragile items.
File Boxes
Hinged plastic containers designed to be used as file boxes are a popular style of box, and can be used to hold letters and hanging files. The hinged lid is usually equipped with a snap lock lid. Some boxes come with carry handles, which can be very convenient. These boxes are durably constructed and they are usually available in many colors, with two of the more common ones being black and blue. Standard dimensions for hinged plastic file boxes are 1 foot high by 1 ¼ feet wide and 1 ½ feet deep.
To summarize, hinged plastic boxes come in many unique shapes, styles and sizes. In fact there are hundreds of varieties that can be purchased. They feature a convenient hinged lid that will create a fairly tight seal when it is snapped shut. Generally they are available in colorless clear plastic, clear plastic of various colors, and opaque colors. They are economical, they are attractive, and they can be used over and over again to store, protect and transport just about anything.