"I don't like plastic kits, because they look like toys, and most of the applications built by plastic kits are just for fun, without practical use, " he says.
According to author Billy Ingram, perhaps the world's leading Winky Dink authority, many children who didn't own the plastic sheets simply took crayons they had around the house and, on Winky Dink's cue, drew directly on the glass screens of their parents' expensive first-generation television sets.
Incinerating plastic doesn't seem to be an option for safely eliminating plastic waste, either.
If plastics recycling isn't taking off, that's in part because scrap plastic isn't worth much--and it isn't worth much because handling it consumes gobs of labor, energy and other precious resources.
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.
After all, you can't get autographs on plastic figurines, nor can you put them in bicycle-wheel spokes, if kids do that anymore.
But when we met there last week, he confessed not only to having had breakfast there on occasion, but to bringing his own stainless steel utensils, because he doesn't like the dinky plastic knives and forks Irv's provides.
Hanging cloud cover didn't stop many from discarding plastic ponchos and hat covers, which began piling up around the grandstand.
You can't go and get the plastic in the five gyres, but you can wait for it to come to you.
If all that floating plastic rubbish isn't eaten by marine life, it eventually washes ashore.
The red plastic caps don't stay on the cans and there's no snap to hold the auxiliary spray tube.
"A plastic plant isn't much interest to a minnow, but a zebrafish will spawn over one, " says Dr. Paull.
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No one really knows how long it takes to break down, because plastic simply hasn't been around long enough.
In Maine, for example, bait can't be sold in polystyrene foam plastic.
There aren't very many people and the plastic roofs seem out of place under what used to be tidy, middle class brick houses.
When I attach it to the waistband of my running shorts, the plastic clip doesn't leave scratches on my skin, as the third-generation Shuffle did.
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Though the 101 XS' soft lines and plastic body don't provide much eye candy, we must say the device feels very good in the hand.
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Street vendors are doing a roaring trade selling t-shirts, whistles and plastic trumpets, while others are busy painting people's faces the colours of the national flag.
There's the China-doll sheen of Bo Peep, the molded plastic finish of the T-Rex, and a tiny troop of khaki green soldiers, to say nothing of the space-age sleek of Buzz Lightyear.
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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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.
Anything I can't recycle, it's old plastic, lots of plastic trays and containers, foam polystyrene.
However, it's nice to know that some of the plastic I use doesn't have to live in a landfill for hundreds of years.
We use less and less cash and more and more plastic so we don't have that discipline to allocate money for different things.
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Since the pen was made of plastic, there wasn't a risk of encountering electrical voltage when I pushed in the remainder of the disengaged breaker.
It is really only in the past 50 years that plastic has become integral to our everyday lives, another point that makes me realize that we can vastly cut back our consumption of plastic if consumers weren't so lazy, and designer thought "smarter" early on in the manufacturing process.
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