Some airlines have returned to using real glassware and silverware in first class, rather than plastic or paper, he noted.
Currently, organic solar cells are fabricated on glass, plastic or paper.
At its peak, Jardim Gramacho had about 5, 000 catadores, people who spend their days scouring landfills for plastic, paper, wood, metal and anything else that can be sold to recycling companies.
Pack food and other gear in reusable fabric shopping sacks instead of paper or plastic bags, and use recycled paper napkins.
The building in central Kolkata houses shops selling plastic goods and paper, he said.
Canada will soon join a growing list of countries that use a polymer-based plastic instead of paper for its cash.
It takes four times as much energy to produce a paper bag than it does plastic, and when they're dumped away in landfills, paper bags don't biodegrade any better than plastic.
He was given four sheets, four towels, a blanket, a bedroll, a toothbrush, toilet paper, a tall clear plastic cup, a bar of soap, seven white T-shirts, seven pairs of boxer shorts, seven pairs of socks, plastic slippers, a pad of paper, and a ballpoint pen.
The history of computing is largely written on paper and plastic that gets thrown away.
The team collected 16, 000 gallons of recyclable material on campus which included paper, plastic, aluminum and cardboard.
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The switch from paper to plastic is not confined to America and Europe.
Several countries have already switched from paper to plastic, at least in part.
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NPR's Tovia Smith reports on whether shoppers are making a difference by using their own bags instead of picking paper or plastic.
Money needs psychological acceptance: The population must unblinkingly accept the fact that a plastic card or flimsy paper is of great value.
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 Montgomery County tax, which was passed by the County Council Tuesday, covers all paper and plastic bags distributed at check-out by a retail establishment.
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.
Last May, Plastic Logic demonstrated a paper-like flexible screen capable of playing video in colour, which is achieved by placing a filter on top of the original black-and-white display.
But since then plummeting prices for virgin paper, plastic and fuels, and hence also for the waste that substitutes for them, have put an end to such visions.
In my first quick thumb-through, I gazed at a smiling young woman poised behind a blanket covered with a neatly arranged assortment of paper, plastic and glass containers.
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.
Look at all of that -- diaper packaging, electronic wrap, the plastic wrap from around paper towels -- all stuff that I have thrown in the trash at one point or another because I had no idea how to recycle it.
Although improper storage such as using plastic bags rather than paper or exposing the evidence to too much humidity or heat can degrade DNA, Hagan says that current technology can even recover complete profiles from poorly stored evidence, the kind usually available in very old cases.
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"By charging a nominal 5-cent fee for each paper and plastic bag, customers become incentivized to either forego a bag or bring a reusable bag rather than pay the 5-cent fee, " said Keith Anderson, interim director of the district's Department of the Environment, who came to Trenton to testify about the bill.
Take one conundrum tackled by consumers every day at markets around the world: Paper bags or plastic?
The microcapsules can be suspended in a carrier medium, so that they can be screen-printed on to surfaces including glass, plastic, fabric and even paper.
The tomato sauce, onions, cheese, flour, potatoes and meat for that burger are flown 2, 400 kilometres from South Africa as is everything in Luanda: the paper napkins, plastic menus and cooking oil, bottled water, flashy cars, toilet seats, insect repellent.
Paper is natural, plastic artificial, so it might seem that brown bags are better.
Manhattan Beach, CA and Bellingham, WA already banned plastic bags in grocery stores and paper bags in Bellingham cost an extra 5 cents.
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