The practice was banned by international treaty in 1988 because the plastic bad for sea life, from turtles on down the food chain.
Some survivors described their harrowing escapes by rigging up disguises and sneaking to safety with locals, with at least one survivor running for his life with plastic explosives strapped around his neck.
Estimated to be around the size of Texas, this contaminated area of ocean has by some estimates more plastic than food for marine life.
Huibers has filled his ark, which will operate as a "Bible museum, " with life-sized plastic animals and an aviary of live birds to give visitors more to interact with.
Now that I saw the reality of his life, the plastic bags full of free samples, the half-eaten sandwich balanced on a teetering stack of magazines, I knew that any confrontation would be absurd.
The scary thing about plastic is that even though we have the feeling that plastic is essential to our everyday life we know so little about its toxicity.
We wouldn't be surprised to see this being the final price, though, and either way, it serves as a nagging reminder that the life of a fake plastic musician doesn't come cheap.
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David Lock, counsel for the hospital, part of the Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, said a doctor had said she was "living in a plastic box" and that her life would be "dominated by pain and suffering".
Approximately 60 to 80 percent of marine debris is plastic, the majority of which is as a result of our mindless use of one-life plastics, 60 percent of which is comprised of plastic bags, Styrofoam (used for take away foods), drinks bottles and their caps.
"Marine life in the ocean are mistaking plastic for their natural food, " Lamson said.
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If all that floating plastic rubbish isn't eaten by marine life, it eventually washes ashore.
Professor Nizetic suggested future research should be directed into basic molecular mechanisms that could one day develop into treatments to children with Down's syndrome in the first few years of life when the brains are "plastic" and rapidly developing.
Instead of an Elmo costume, I could have rented a life-size stuffed zebra, or a plastic cadaver.
SpareOne, designed to be an ultimate safety and communication device, provides up to 15 years of battery life when stored unused (off, with plastic tab inserted) or 10 hours of talk time when in use.
The company uses resin, aluminum and plastic injection molding to help designers see their products come to life.
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There are a few headsets, but the eye catching devices are the plastic Playstation Move controller holders shaped like variants of various real life assault weapons.
The very first play set debuted in 1962 as a Modern-style studio fashioned of cardboard with tiny pink plastic hangers in the closet and miniature records touting real-life band names hanging on the walls.
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Rosie the organic range chicken enjoyed the good life before ending up beheaded, plucked, swathed in plastic and artfully arranged on a bed of ice at the Whole Foods Market inGlendale, California.
It said the retail industry had already used a range of different techniques, such as introducing bags for life and other offers, to reduce the use of plastic bags which - led by the UK's leading supermarkets - it had done so by at least 25% since signing a voluntary up to a voluntary scheme to do so in 2007.
The four-seat passenger compartment the "Life" module comprises a discrete carbon-reinforced plastic structure bolted and glued on top of the Drive section.
So where circumstances are life-threatening and where circumstances make it appropriate to use plastic baton rounds we will do so but only in such circumstances.
Where the Pilgrims drank unpasteurized milk filled with potentially life threatening bacteria, we fret about drinking anything out of plastic containing BPA, even though Health Canada pointed out that we would need to drink more than 1, 000 liters a day to exceed the safety level (which has an additional safety factor to make the safe level even safer).
Which means the very durability that makes plastic so useful to humans also makes it incredibly harmful to all the natural life cycles in every ecosystem worldwide.
Not only will your sweet plastic love affair turn sour, you could carry the load of debt the rest of your life.
"What is worrying is the ever-increasing amount of plastic found on beaches, which is biodegradable and which presents huge problems for bird and marine life, " said Ms Bell.
Finally, we covered a set of incredible LEGO creations -- from a life-size Wall-E robot made from Lego Mindstorms to a computer built from plastic bricks and a series of amazing Lego animals that invaded the Bronx Zoo.
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Banco Verde Vida (Green Life Bank) pays with its moeda verde (green currency) for recyclable materials such as plastic bottles, tins and used cooking oil.
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If most people carry their entire medical history on a plastic card that the emergency services come to rely on, a refusal to carry the card could be life-threatening.
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