It is actually quite easy to go without using plastic shopping bags altogether.
The Dolphin will produce 20 liters (a little over five gallons, for those who don't speak metric) of water per day at 70% humidity, which is enough for your office if you go through one of those ungainly water cooler jugs per day or less plus, without the plastic waste, and avoiding other associated costs of water jug transportation (emissions, namely).
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By zapping the silicon with a laser it is possible to heat it, and cause it to form crystals, without melting the plastic.
By enabling shoppers to feel better about a particular plastic garbage bag without emptying their wallet, Glad could well gain some goodwill and converts in the store aisles.
The pair got the idea from the American illusionist David Blaine who recently spent 44 days without any food inside a plastic box suspended by a crane near the River Thames in London.
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By not buying anything plastic I was able to live without creating any waste for the six months.
Landfills without the benefit of a naturally impermeable layer use plastic liners and imported clay.
On the bottom you'll find a plastic material that allows for better reception without worrying about interference.
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"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.
The carving out of interior space involves extensive use of super-thin injection-molded plastic pieces on the dash and doors, without much of anything behind them, as well as seats thinner than a jailhouse mattress.
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Screenshots in the app supposedly show a mail-in option for plastic that could completely replace credit and debit cards without turning to NFC.
These things still happen in the Volt, but not without the sense of something more going on beneath its white plastic console panels almost like its deciding how exactly to respond to your inputs, much as HAL behaved in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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But few of today's imaginative ideas would have made it onto drawing boards without cork's competition from screw-top bottle caps, plastic stoppers and aluminum Tetra Paks.
It is said that they entered the offices without permission, handcuffed and chained themselves to the desks and attached themselves to each other with a plastic pipe.
Belgian Liberal Philippe de Backer said people can encounter "major difficulties" without a bank account, for example in receiving wages and paying bills, because "cash is being replaced by plastic in our world".
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