Lang began the meeting by tossing a few sheets of what looked like plastic on the table.
Obviously, people don't eat cellophane, but I think, oh my God, what a waste of plastic - all the petroleum.
David Sanborn was Bowie's main musical foil which means his saxophone playing dominates this excursion into what Bowie called "plastic soul".
But what if we could make plastic from a recycled, natural, biodegradable source?
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Bloomberg's announcement, made Thursday in his State of the City address, left consumers and food vendors big and small wondering what a city free of plastic foam might look like.
There were small plastic cups filled with what looked like pond scum sitting on a nearby counter.
Many of them have been commandeered by the city's large homeless population, who slip away in the light of day but leave behind evidence of their existence dirty clothes scattered about, a bedroll where they slept, empty cans and plastic foam containers from what passed for a meal.
Then the action on the television screen would combine with what the children had drawn on the plastic sheet to create a narrative-in-motion.
Great: but what is the cost of collecting enough used plastic bags to make 1, 000 tonnes?
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She said she was present to support all the people, regardless of what community, in the fight to have plastic bullets banned.
What I was expecting was a kit with plastic materials for walls and furniture, a few decorative items and a lot of electronics.
Unsurprisingly, the wheel made from a smooth and sturdy feeling plastic that's similar to what you'll find on the PS3 slim, so despite the size we'd place it in the "light" category, as far weight goes.
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The loveable laptops have had a handful of problems since their debut, ranging from the random shutdown syndrome (which was later fixed), to the whirring moo problem (also fixed), to the discoloration issue (yep, fixed), to the plastic cracking crisis (no idea what's going on there).
What look like supersize bento boxes contain neatly packaged plastic bags of bolts, clips and other hardware.
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Or what about the questionable behavior of not recycling your plastic bags?
There aren't very many people and the plastic roofs seem out of place under what used to be tidy, middle class brick houses.
What makes the Commando different is its thick black plastic shell, a 3.6-inch touchscreen covered with Corning's extra-tough Gorilla Glass and a micro-USB port sealed with a rubber gasket.
What water there was came from the Americans, in plastic bottles, stacked inside the base.
Plastic insulation over the windows barely kept in what heat was being generated.
He keeps track of the slayings on what he calls the "murder board, " a plastic board that hangs outside his church.
They were required to keep a daily diary for two weeks, detailing when, in what ways and how often their boys played with the plastic blocks.
"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.
We were all ready to start harshing on the Top Tag Pet ID--a USB thumb drive that contains vital info about your pet--because it seems pretty silly to assume that a lost animal's rescuer would know what the hell to do with that small piece of plastic dangling from Tinkerbelle's collar.
But the plastic housing adds quite a bit of bulk to what is already relatively thick device.
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Protesting about the inclusion of pink plastic bricks in a building set strikes me as trivialising what can indeed be a serious problem.
The secret to the screens is in what's behind them: a thin strip of metal-coated plastic that's only 50 microns thick -- about half the width of a human hair -- and wraps around a spool.
The Nextbook Next4 is a 10-inch panel aping the iPad in offering a 1024 x 768 resolution and what will be a brushed aluminum back (ours was made out of plastic, but it was just a display prototype).
"What we need most is a warm place, " a woman crouching underneath plastic sheeting with about 10 others on the open back of a truck told Reuters.
Bruce Cunningham, chairman of the ASPS and a professor of plastic surgery at the University of Minnesota, says insurers are still deciding what procedures to pay for.
They said that by using stereolithography, their printer could offer "layer thicknesses and feature sizes that are worlds ahead of what is possible with" the existing technique used by budget printers, which melt plastic and squeeze it through a nozzle to build up each layer of an object.
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