But there are some issues to be resolved before plastic can truly find its place in the sun.
Dow's materials-engineering center is busy brainstorming ways that plastic can be used to replace wood and steel in durable goods, particularly home appliances and auto parts.
Cheaper, lighter panels, increasingly made of plastic, can then be hung on this skeleton.
Whereas silicon has an efficiency of around 15-18%, plastic devices can only achieve 7-8% at best, currently.
Bags and small plastic pieces can entangle marine animals causing them to drown.
The impermeable membrane is a thick plastic that can contain leaks.
When a power blackout or some other inevitable technical issue occurs, plastic cards can be imprinted mechanically with paper, or some other technology will be developed to record the transaction perfectly.
Until now, Belu water has been available in a glass bottle, but from next month the company will launch its "bio bottle, " which is made out of a plastic that can decompose in eight to 10 weeks.
The government has always been keen to keep Rwanda clean and correspondents say the capital, Kigali, is much cleaner than other African cities, where thin blue plastic bags can been seen in fields and on trees fluttering in the wind.
It turns out that Ziplocs and all plastic sandwich bags can be dropped off at any bin that takes plastic grocery bags.
For example, buyers of iPads are willing to pay an exorbitant price for the package of plastic and metal that make up an iPad because that package of plastic and metal can do quite amazing things compares to other packaging of plastic and metal.
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The only plastic objects that can not now be recycled are heavily contaminated items, such as paint pots and plastic products, such as carrier bags, coal sacks, and clear material used to seal food containers.
After all, you can't get autographs on plastic figurines, nor can you put them in bicycle-wheel spokes, if kids do that anymore.
If a little curiosity, imagination and time can engineer plastic bottles into a boat and that boat can then forge its way into the collective imaginations of people everywhere, then who knows what else is possible?
From a plastic jerry-can on the street, a less reliable source, it might go for 50 cents.
The Old Belize Bar in Belize City has a plastic copy you can have your photograph taken with.
Its threads have tiny notches on their upper surfaces that grab the plastic before it can slide down the helix.
Most of the plastic and metals can be recycled and reused.
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His exemplary badges are typically 3 inches high and 4 inches wide, and enclosed in a plastic sleeve that can double as a business-card or room-key holder.
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The most apparent and shocking of which is the plastic waste that can now be found scattered across the surfaces and the depths of our planet's oceans.
Any item with a plug or batteries which fits into an average sized plastic carrier bag can be put in the green box, which is picked up weekly.
In the following days the team began sourcing thousands of "bori bags", essentially very strong, large plastic sacks which can be filled with earth to make insulated, cheap, stable shelters.
Buying organic baby carrots in bulk and packaging them into reusable cloth snack packs is more expensive AND takes longer than buying baby carrots wrapped in extra plastic that you can just grab and throw into a lunch box.
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"I'll give it to him in a plastic sheet so he can put it under the basket, " Hurley said.
And these synapses are plastic -- they can be modified by learning.
Reeves cautions not to use clear plastic tarps, which can actually cook the grass on a lawn if left out for a day or two.
We need to redesign, revalue, reduce, reuse, and ultimately rethink our use of plastic so that it can contribute to solutions rather than compounding the problems.
He said he wanted to suggest that more action was taken to make clubs and bars use plastic bottles whenever they can to prevent similar accidents happening.
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La Jetee, named after the 1962 Chris Marker sci-fi film, is a gathering place for disciples of French cinema and the Nouvelle Vague movement, while at Bar Plastic Model, punters can wear Mario hats and play old Nintendo 64 video games.
You can't go and get the plastic in the five gyres, but you can wait for it to come to you.
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