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.

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Now, as it brings its first 10-inch tablet to market, Huawei is borrowing a few key design elements -- namely, that mix of white plastic and chrome.

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In the meantime, Lowry hopes to expand ocean plastic to other product lines and increase the amount of ocean material in the recycling mix.

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Back to the bricks and mortar (well, plastic and metal) hardware, there's pretty much everything here you need to mix your way up from beginner to gigging DJ.

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Another Toyota innovation is within reach of the assembly line: stacks of car parts in plastic bins, neatly sorted in the sequence in which they'll be needed for the mix of cars coming down the assembly line.

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