HDPE is used to manufacture grocery, merchandise and trash bags, food containers for items such as frozen desserts and margarine, bottle caps and closures, liners for cereal and cracker boxes, plastic drink cups, dairy crates, bread trays, pails, safety equipment such as hard hats, house wrap for insulation, bottles for household and industrial chemicals, milk bottles, juice bottles, and large tanks for storing liquids such as agricultural and lawn care chemicals.

LDPE is used to manufacture food packaging films, plastic bottles for packaging food and personal care items, dry cleaning bags, ice bags, pallet shrink wrap, heavy-duty bags for mulch and potting soil, boil-in-bag bags, coatings on flexible packaging products, and coatings on paper board such as milk cartons.