By enabling shoppers to feel better about a particular plastic garbage bag without emptying their wallet, Glad could well gain some goodwill and converts in the store aisles.
It was loneliness that had led him to seek a conversation on a restaurant patio long past the lunch hour, as it was loneliness that had made her empty the refrigerator in the cottage and pack her belongings into five mega-sized black plastic garbage bags and drop them outside a Goodwill early one morning.
In hiring a spokesman, Kenneth Starr was hoping we'd forget that picture of him smiling insipidly in his driveway while holding a black plastic bag of garbage.
Much of the pollution that exists in the garbage patches is plastic waste that gradually breaks down into short lengths of polymer which absorb other pollutants and accelerate their uptake into the marine food-chain.
In a different answer to rising sea levels, Dutch studio Whim Architects produced plans for floating, self-sustaining homes made from plastic waste from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
No plastic, which everyone knows makes up a huge part of our garbage these days.
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Municipalities are requiring that garbage be separated into a larger number of different piles (plastic here, glass there).
His aim during a 100-day voyage that will take him from San Francisco, California, to Sydney, Australia, is to find the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" between California and Japan -- a massive sea of plastic trash that environmentalists say could soon be larger than the continental United States.
After reading about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and seeing a photograph of an albatross with its belly full of plastic several years ago, Terry started cataloguing the plastic waste she creates each year, concentrating on disposable plastics (not her laptop or television, but things like food packaging, shipping waste, straws, and so forth).
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