It has built a reusable spacecraft and flown it more than 100 times.
BTW, 17 members of an Oregon soccer team got Norwalk from a reusable bag last year.
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This is because it is safe to place wrapped food into a reusable bag.
Meanwhile, a reusable cotton shopping bag will be launched on Wednesday to help promote the street market.
They also gave the Obamas a reusable grocery bag emblazoned with a dandelion, and his-and-hers Dior bathrobes.
Use a reusable bag, such as a strong cotton or hemp bag instead.
The shuttle was supposed to be a reusable truck that would make the business of putting people into orbit quotidian.
The shuttle was a big bus -- a reusable vehicle that could carry both cargo and people to low Earth orbit.
He said a reusable rocket could make space launches 100 times cheaper.
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He suddenly realized how he might make use of that weak glue: It could be applied to paper to create a reusable bookmark!
"Right now I'm walking and I'm carrying a reusable grocery bag -- I've just been to the grocery store, " she tells CNN by cell phone from New York.
Rather than going through the complicated process of steaming and bending bamboo to suit his shape, he actually used a reusable skeleton to guide the shape of the bamboo as it grew.
We can't get rid of the carcinogens in the environment, but we can make sure that our kids arrive at school each day with a reusable lunch bag full of produce from the farmers' market.
California's XCOR Aerospace also is developing a reusable vehicle that will take a pilot and a front-seat customer to the edge of space -- for pleasure or to transport scientific payloads that would benefit from microgravity.
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If there is a boom coming, the fuse was lit by the 2004 flight of SpaceShipOne, a reusable space vehicle built by aircraft designer Burt Rutan and funded by Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) co-founder Paul Allen .
"By charging a nominal 5-cent fee for each paper and plastic bag, customers become incentivized to either forego a bag or bring a reusable bag rather than pay the 5-cent fee, " said Keith Anderson, interim director of the district's Department of the Environment, who came to Trenton to testify about the bill.
If you went to a fast food restaurant and purchased a packet of fries and a burger then the fries can be placed in a free bag as they are only part wrapped and you would not be expected to place these in a reusable bag as there could be some food safety risks.
So in order to have a breakthrough, you have to have a fully reusable rocket.
The Third Era began in earnest in 1981, with the launch of the first Space Shuttle, Columbia, a mostly reusable workhorse designed to ferry astronauts, research experiments, satellites and equipment into Earth orbit.
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"When somebody makes a cheap, reusable launch vehicle that can get up to orbit, all sorts of things will change, " Carmack says.
In the British city of Cambridge, a private aerospace firm called Reaction Engines has been toiling away for more than 20 years to make reusable engines that can get a vehicle into space.
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In the main Beijing office, a homely red-painted house in a courtyard littered with bicycles, visitors would be handed staff cards printed on recycled paper and given metal reusable chopsticks, together with a lecture on how much of China's virgin forest was disappearing for wooden chopsticks every year.
Typically 95% of a ship's structure is reusable, most of it valuable steel.
Researchers Charles Gerba and two colleagues found that a full 12 per cent of reusable bags randomly sampled from shoppers in California and Arizona were contaminated with E. coli.
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The ultimate promise of reusable craft like SpaceShipOne is a vastly reduced launch cost, greater ease of preparing a flight and the prospect of opening space for tourism.
The measure approved by the Senate Environmental Committee requires retailers to give customers a 5-cent rebate for each reusable shopping bag they use and charge them 5 cents for each single-use bag they take.
It is not a one-time expense because our filter is reusable.
The Blue side also had a National Missile Defense system, as well as reusable space planes that could be launched to quickly place new satellites in orbit or repair and refuel ones already there.
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In a perfect world, shoppers would carry groceries home in reusable cloth sacks, and do away with disposable bags altogether.
According to John Dilworth, a London-based maker and historian, his use of reusable templates alone distinguished him from all his contemporaries.
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