The new levy on plastic carrier bags has come into effect in Northern Ireland.
There are fewer high value transactions, but these tend to be made on plastic.
We are sitting on plastic chairs in the empty Knicks practice facility in Tarrytown, New York.
Bieber is just one of many celebrities to take up the spotlight on plastic.
Calfo said the metal implant had been designed to improve on plastic and ceramic implants.
To start with, it is developing a roll-to-roll process to make amorphous-silicon transistors on plastic film.
Newly arrived Cuban families sit on plastic chairs, waiting to be called in for their medical checkup.
But I doubt many customers will give up on plastic as a result of the hacker attack.
"I've heard of cases where the customer spent his points on plastic surgery for his wife, " Ferguson says.
We are seeing titles being sold as digital copies at a slower pace than their equivalent on plastic disks.
The Public Services Department said the numbers printed on plastic packaging were often unclear or too small to read.
After all, you can't get autographs on plastic figurines, nor can you put them in bicycle-wheel spokes, if kids do that anymore.
Diana Wallis - the Liberal Democrat MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber - has long argued for a levy on plastic carrier bags.
Through the doors, women working as outsourced workers for existing nearby factories can be seen putting handles on plastic bags and metal springs together.
The society has called on the UK Government to introduce new laws placing a tax on plastic bags and limiting the release of balloons.
Even though I learned to swing a club on plastic mats, through some mix of geography and good fortune, my family belongs to the club.
So when I see newly divorced patients in my office, I encourage them to hold off on plastic surgery until they're in a good mental state.
Ikea now charges a bag fee to customers who don't bring their own, and some cities are imposing taxes on plastic bags or banning them altogether.
Across Britain her initiative has struck a chord, and now over 80 other towns have followed her lead and introduced their own schemes to cut down on plastic bags.
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Questions to the environment minister included planning laws, the repatriation of waste to the Republic of Ireland, high hedges legislation and plans to introduce a levy on plastic bags.
Schumer is joined by U.S. congressman Steve Israel of New York, who has introduced legislation to renew a ban on plastic guns that is set to expire later this year.
The Sinn Fein document also said that there were no assurances that the Patten recommendations on plastic bullets, the RUC special branch, community representation and new policing practices would be carried through.
The setting is light and airy, the seating is comfortable, the visual merchandising is artfully done, and the food is served on real dishware, not in paper wrappers or on plastic plates.
If these fish survive and do not starve from lack of nutrients as a result of filling up on plastic, they will get eaten by bigger predators, who in turn ingest the plastic.
After that, says James Sheats, a researcher at Hewlett-Packard who is also Rolltronics' chief technical adviser, the next step will be to apply Dr Carey's work and make smaller, faster transistors on plastic film.
The Irish Republic introduced a levy on plastic bags in 2002 which resulted in a 90% drop in the use of them across the country while China and Israel also have a charging system in place.
Recently a company from Utah called Millenniata has introduced an optical disc technology utilizing a disc in which the data is etched (or engraved) into a ceramic substrate rather than stamped on plastic like conventional optical discs.
White molten plastic is then pumped on to the top of the disk, and black plastic on to the bottom.
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