In Maine, for example, bait can't be sold in polystyrene foam plastic.
He did not confine himself to androgynous clothing, though: he also favoured diaphanous blouses worn without underwear, a fashion that has supposedly returned this year, though most busts still seem to be encased in polystyrene.
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The most well-known and is Ravis Restaurant on Satwa Road, a no-frills canteen that serves renowned butter chicken, best chased with milky chai in a polystyrene cup for three dirhams.
After all, this is a man who gave away 500 designer polystyrene chairs in Trafalgar Square six years ago.
One example has been the rebuilding of houses in Afghanistan using waste polystyrene.
In 1971 came noodles in heat-proof polystyrene cups, so that the hungry did not even need to get their bowls out of the cupboard.
From the opening moments when Russian heart-throb Dima Bilan, winner of last year's competition, flew above the crowd and smashed through a series of polystyrene walls in front of the stage, the audience knew it would be an extravagant and lavish evening.
The company said it does have stores in four U.S. cities that have implemented a polystyrene ban but uses paper cups in those stores.
Then it went up against those insidious polystyrene peanuts, which popped up in the 1970s.
Although commonly referred to as Styrofoam, that brand of polystyrene foam isn't used in food packaging, according to its manufacturer, Dow Chemical Co.
Michie's Whale Skull Bone will be made using a metal framework inside a carved dense polystyrene material which is then coated in reinforced concrete.
It is, however, important for the helmet to fit well so that it stays in place during a fall, and the polystyrene layer can only be compressed once so helmets should be replaced after an accident.
It involves creating a lattice made out of tiny polystyrene spheres and then filling the space in and around the structure with metal.
It appeared as if carved out of stone, but in fact was made of vast segments of hot-wire-cut polystyrene with a light beech veneer.
The researchers report in Biomacromolecules that their new material matches the stiffness, strength and compressibility of expanded polystyrene, a common packaging material that is the bane of many a rubbish dump.
The platforms were made by Marche Industries in Ford, near Shrewsbury, which says it turns caravans "into a boat" using polystyrene blocks.
Working from a one-to-twenty scale polystyrene model, the designer worked closely with an engineering team, including two traditional stone-carvers, in making a vast, jagged construction that, bolted to the walls and secured by steel cables, interweaved gracefully in and out of the shop windows, and loomed above the pavement.
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