EXHIBIT 23.1
                       
                    INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' CONSENT AND     
                     
                  REPORT ON FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULE     
 
The Board of Directors
Plastic Containers, Inc.
   
  The audits referred to in our report dated February 7, 1997 (page F-2 of the
prospectus in this Registration Statement) included the consolidated financial
statement Schedule II for each of the years in the three-year period ended
December 31, 1996, included in this Registration Statement. This financial
statement schedule is the responsibility of the Company's management. Our
responsibility is to express an opinion on this financial statement schedule
based on our audits. In our opinion, such financial statement schedule, when
considered in relation to the basic consolidated financial statements taken as
a whole, presents fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth
therein.     
   
  We consent to the inclusion in this Registration Statement of the above
report and our report dated February 7, 1997, and to the reference to our firm
under the heading "Experts" in the prospectus included herein. Such report
refers to a change in accounting for postemployment benefits in 1994.     
       
                                          KPMG Peat Marwick LLP
 
Omaha, Nebraska
   
March 21, 1997