Kodak however, was still focused on marketing its single use film camera which continued to sell well.
However, you would have to pay for a single use bag if you had bought the shoes.
Now, real estate income properties like Mixed Use Developments, Strip Malls, Single Use Leased Properties, Office Buildings, etc.
Many people abandoned their single use film cameras and stopped printing photos as publishing photos to Facebook took off.
Maintaining inventories of limited shelf life, single use product is really really hard.
If our customers want single use bags we'll give them single use bags.
The commission formally reversed its policy in March 2004 to declare even a single use of an expletive could be illegal.
Supermarkets have issued substantially fewer single use bags since the 5p charge was introduced, according to figures obtained by the BBC earlier this month.
Since the Welsh Government imposed a 5p charge last year (giving the cash to charity) there's been fall of up to 96% in single use bags in supermarkets.
The number of packages returning through the system is astonishing: 90% of cans designed for single use are recycled, and nearly 100% of refillable bottles find their way back to Carlsberg.
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Environment minister Alex Attwood said he believed "the vast majority of people" would be happy with the introduction of the new levy and realised that plastic bags and single use bags were a "threat to our environment".
Case in point: When Kodak wanted to bring out a "single use" disposable camera, people within the company's film division vigorously opposed the move because the inexpensive plastic lenses used meant that the quality of the photographs wouldn't be as good as those taken by 35mm cameras.
Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) may applaud the fact that, "Millions of kids can now 'LOL' and 'BFF' in the bedroom, on the stairs or even in the bathroom, " but not one person who saw the device in action during our testing could think of a single use for it.
The use of single-use equipment has been linked to 20 adverse incidents, including the deaths of two patients.
"We are not happy that the decline in the use of single-use plastic bags has not been maintained and that there has been an increase, " he said.
The measure approved by the Senate Environmental Committee requires retailers to give customers a 5-cent rebate for each reusable shopping bag they use and charge them 5 cents for each single-use bag they take.
It recommended a pilot scheme to see how single-use instruments would work in practice.
Retailers must now charge shoppers at least five pence for each new single-use carrier bag.
Derriford Hospital had planned to introduce new single-use equipment by the end of February.
Several other countries including China have banned plastic bags or instituted fees for single-use bags.
The recommendation to move to single-use instruments came after advice from the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC).
Most recently, the foundation introduced the Plastic Free Schools program to reduce single-use plastic on the Hawaiian Islands.
Particularly, the Plastiki is hoping to raise awareness about single-use consumer products that are filling landfills and the sea.
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Tyco Healthcare, Boston Scientific and tiny Rita Medical Systems make the equipment, which includes portable generators and single-use needles.
It is enabling us to repurpose the underoccupied single-use office building as a hub of social connectivity and interaction.
Shadow Health Secretary Dr Liam Fox has called for a public inquiry into the safety of single-use surgical instruments.
To further discourage single-use containers, Portland just passed a bill that bans plastic bags in all major grocery stores.
No big shocker here as erecting giant, single-use stores with no connection to public transport is typically how the Arkansas-based retailer rolls.
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The largest single industrial use for platinum group metals is auto catalysts.
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The Northern Ireland Executive will bring forward legislation later this year to introduce a 5p charge for single-use carrier bags in April 2013.
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