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About the Ziploc® brand

For over 50 years, we’ve helped families store, protect, and serve foods with our trusted products.

Ziploc® brand — a legacy of quality

Our story comes from a simple truth: When it comes to storage solutions, people deserve quality products that they can count on. That’s why over 50 years ago, Ziploc® brand invented the resealable bag category.

Starting in 1968, we began with our innovative zipper technology… and over the next several decades we continued to evolve our storage solutions to meet the needs of our users, providing trusted protection and food storage expertise to help keep food fresh and reduce food waste – saving you time and money and enabling you to focus on the moments that matter.

Father and daughter adding trail mix from a Large Ziploc® bag into a Medium Ziploc® bag

Unloc trusted Ziploc® protection

Today, we offer a wide array of trusted storage solutions to meet your every day needs. And today, we’re here to help you Unloc Life: celebrating and enabling you to live life uncontained.

From our sandwich bags that help keep your food fresh on-the-go, to our storage bags expertly designed to help keep foods fresh, to our freezer bags designed to help protect food against freezer burn, Ziploc® brand has a solution for you.

Two school age children sitting on a bench outside eating sandwiches from Ziploc® bags

Mindful choices

Mindfully made so you can use, reuse, then recycle.+

Mindfully Made

Our products are made without BPA or Phthalates.*

*Products not formulated with BPA (Bisphenol A) or Phthalates

Mindfully Use

Our products are reusable.

Mindfully Dispose

Our products are recyclable.+

+Ziploc® bags are recyclable in some areas. Please check locally for plastic film recycling options near you. Endurables® are recyclable through TerraCycle®. Visit the Terracycle website for more details. Simply look for the How2Recycle® label on your Ziploc® packaging for more details.

A mission shaped by five generations

Ziploc® is a proud member of the SC Johnson family of brands. Since 1886, SC Johnson has been guided by our commitment to keep earning the goodwill of the people around us. It matters to us that we do right by employees, consumers, the public, our communities and the world at large, and treat everyone with integrity and respect.

Samuel Curtis Johnson Family c.1917

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