That compares with just 1.7 to 2.3 percent of people who had ceramic or plastic joints.
Sell or trade them on a site like Card Avenue, Swapagift.com, or Plastic Jungle.
Take one conundrum tackled by consumers every day at markets around the world: Paper bags or plastic?
But 2.1m were on the streets, or living in flimsy shacks, with improvised walls made of cardboard or plastic sheeting.
Until that time, one can either use the old currencies or conduct euro transactions electronically, or with checks or plastic cards.
Pack food and other gear in reusable fabric shopping sacks instead of paper or plastic bags, and use recycled paper napkins.
Unlike metal or plastic artificial lures, which are rarely swallowed by fish, critics say yo-yoing's bait too often leads to lead-filled stomachs.
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Shape them loosely into balls and let rest on the table, covered with a damp towel or plastic wrap, for 30 minutes.
Because nanotechnology has such broad applications, many people think that it may turn out to be as important as electricity or plastic.
It's not that winemakers are unaware of the environmental benefits of paper or plastic, it's that they struggle with the impact of perception.
The bending creates a lensing effect in the same way that light is bent through glass or plastic in a microscope or your eyeglasses.
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Small, highly automated metal or plastic parts in small lot sizes.
Competitors shoot from the prone position at a paper or plastic target on a wooden frame, with a round, black aiming mark on a white background.
But the explosion is far more astonishing when you consider that the Arabic-speaking part of the Gulf has essentially no indigenous tradition of visual or plastic arts.
Mr Cockburn said that some items which seem like ideal candidates for recycling, like wrapping paper or cards backed with foil or plastic, simply will not be accepted.
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Vast mounds of rubbish fester on the city's streets where the truly destitute sift for scraps of aluminium or plastic to sell in a hand-to-mouth struggle to survive.
One morning, the young man who rang up my groceries and asked me if I wanted paper or plastic also told me to enjoy the rest of my day.
Nobody know if the wines will perform to the same standards when packaged in paper or plastic, and neither Tetra Paks nor plastic bottles are as sturdy as glass.
Instead of opening wallets in shops and being confronted with a choice of whether to pay by cash or plastic card, they will wave a phone at the checkout.
The flat panel displays, which make kaleidoscopic colors when jabbed with a finger, contain liquid crystal sandwiched between layers of glass or plastic which becomes opaque with an electric current.
Electronic equipment, high-end beauty products, vouchers for vacations and four-star hotels, gift certificates for hair transplants or plastic surgery, bottles of booze, diamonds--all are de rigueur in the celebrity swag bag.
Ch Insp Martin appealed to anyone who uses Ox Hey Lane for running, cycling or walking who may have noticed a pile of clothes or plastic bags in the area recently to contact police.
Heartburn surgery is called fundoplication because it involves folding the fundus, or top portion of the stomach, onto the esophagus and fastening it there using stitches in traditional surgery or plastic fasteners in the case of the new surgery.
In rich countries, it may have come from exotic sources like Fiji or Lapland, packed in glass or plastic destined to become rubbish, devouring energy on its travels and thus making it one of the least green and least defensible rip-offs on the market.
Nothing wiggles, nothing feels like it's in danger of breaking off, and all of the materials seem to be there for a reason: the tops of the jog wheels are grooved to feel like vinyl, for instance, and knobs, faders, and buttons are all coated in non-slip rubber or plastic.
Anyone using, manufacturing or importing plastic bags could be fined or sentenced to a year in prison, Mr Camara said.
In the 30-odd soccer-loving localities she visited, in countries from South Africa to Ivory Coast, balls are spun into being with whatever's at hand: rag or sock, tire or bark, plastic bag or inflated condom.
Unlike the sexy, metal HTC One, the Galaxy remains a polycarbonate, white or black plastic phone.
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Instead of an Elmo costume, I could have rented a life-size stuffed zebra, or a plastic cadaver.
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