The number of packages returning through the system is astonishing: 90% of cans designed for single use are recycled, and nearly 100% of refillable bottles find their way back to Carlsberg.
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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.
Several other countries including China have banned plastic bags or instituted fees for single-use bags.
However, you would have to pay for a single use bag if you had bought the shoes.
The Northern Ireland Executive will bring forward legislation later this year to introduce a 5p charge for single-use carrier bags in April 2013.
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Here, Microsoft has its work cut out for it as services such as HBO Go (which was offered as a demo example) today eschew most Android tablets even for single-screen use.
It's unassumingly sturdy, soft to the touch without being slippery, light in hand without feeling disposable and just wide enough at 210.8 x 135.9 x 7.95mm (8.3 x 5.4 x 0.31 inches) to be perfectly manageable for single-handed use.
Tomlinson, has agreed to pay for five single rooms for the crew to use during standby hours.
Retailers must now charge shoppers at least five pence for each new single-use carrier bag.
In October, LG Chem workers told a local television reporter they play games and watch movies because the factory has yet to produce a single battery for consumer use.
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Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) may applaud the fact that, "Millions of kids can now 'LOL' and 'BFF' in the bedroom, on the stairs or even in the bathroom, " but not one person who saw the device in action during our testing could think of a single use for it.
The FDA also gave Byetta an "approvable letter" for its use as a single-agent therapy.
The largest single industrial use for platinum group metals is auto catalysts.
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Medicare needs to require of any private health plan that wants to contract with it for any reason that they use a single, completely electronic, standardized, end-to-end payment framework for doctors and hospitals.
"Restricting common generic strings for the exclusive use of a single entity could have unintended consequences, including a negative impact on competition, " the country's government wrote.
Sure, it's hard to imagine a reason for most people to pick up a DMP-B15 over a cheapish Blu-ray playing laptop -- the thing is monstrously thick, and can't even handle a traditional laptop-style screen orientation, only everything but -- but the hardware is reliable enough for kids to handle on the road, and the single-use makes it a good home Blu-ray player for plugging into that second HD-starved TV.
In addition, you can use multiple tools for a single purpose or multiple purposes.
Green Mountain manufactures and sells the Keurig single-cup brewing system for use with K-Cup portion packs.
You can play the chips on a Micro Player, which comes with a single earplug (perfect for discreet classroom use).
Academics who use a single script for any leadership or negotiation scenario to determine who seems to be the better leader are missing the point.
The surgeons now use a single manufacturer for seventy-five per cent of their implants, giving the hospital bargaining power that has helped slash its knee-implant costs by half.
Combining the two resources in a single project allows for the more efficient use of transmission lines like the multibillion-dollar one being built to carry 4, 500 megawatts of renewable energy from the Tehachapi to coastal metropolises.
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Sprint offers Truly UnlimitedSM 4G LTE data, text and calling to any mobile device with no metering, no throttling, and no overages, all while on the Sprint network, making it the ideal carrier for customers who want to use every single feature of their Galaxy S 4 every single day of the month without worry.
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All these actions that they take for granted as they use their smartphones every single day were suddenly magical when it was them who had created it.
Technology Review, that got its hands on an early version, said that the blocks come in sets of three, though people can use up to six for a single application.
Single-use zoning and planning for different functions was thought to be efficient, but we now know that most office buildings are grossly underoccupied, with only 30% to 40% of their workspace used in a typical work day, never mind the gross inefficiencies of time and energy spent on large scale mass commuting.
There is no single study that compares jet fuel use for passenger flights versus air freight shipping.
Shadow Health Secretary Dr Liam Fox has called for a public inquiry into the safety of single-use surgical instruments.
Barra's mission is to make the hard product decisions early--and stick with them--so that GM can speed the transition to "global architectures": meaning the use of single sets of components for vehicles worldwide to drive up GM's economies of scale.
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