Sentences with phrase «life out of plastic»

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«I'm working on phasing carbon out of my life,» he tells me as he plucks his infant son, Huxley, from a plastic tub mounted to the front of a clunky - looking three - wheeled bicycle Griffith had brought back from Denmark; he is, naturally, intending to build a better, cooler version of it.

a knee - level view from your bit of pavement; a battered, upturned cooking pot and countable ribs, coughing from your steel - banded lungs, alone, with your face to the wall; shrunken breasts and a three year old who can not stand; the ringed fingers, the eyes averted and a five - paise piece in your palm; smoking the babus» cigarette butts to quieten the fiend in your belly; a husband without a job, without a square meal a day, without energy, without hope; being at the mercy of everyone further up the ladder because you are a threat to their self - respect; a hut of tins and rags and plastic bags, in a warren of huts you can not stand up in, where your neighbors live at one arm's length across the lane; a man who cries out in silence; nobody listening, for everyone's talking; the prayer withheld, the heart withheld, the hand withheld; yours and mine Lord teach us to hate our poverty of spirit.

There will always be a place for Halloween sweets in my life, even if they're not the type that come out of soft serve machines or in plastic wrappers.

«Hello — I'm anxious about getting plastic out of my life but I am completely stumped about what sorts of containers to use for packing lunches.

Today I'm sharing my story with credit cards, how I got in to BIG trouble, got out of it, got in to even BIGGER trouble, got out of it again, and found freedom from the plastic cards that were ruining my life.

IBM developed a technique for making carbon nanotubes emit light, paving the way for new fiber optics; Harvard scientists figured out how to deposit tiny wires on glass or plastic, opening the door for the development of supercheap computers; and at the University of Central Florida, neuroscientist Beverly Rzigalinski discovered a nanomolecular fountain of youth effect: When Rzigalinski applied cerium oxide nanoparticles to rat neurons in a petri dish, the particles seemed to strip out the free radicals that make tissues age and kept the neurons alive and functioning up to six times their normal life span.

PET carpet advocates brag that their products keep plastic soda and water bottles out of the landfill, but who knows how many of those sacrificed bottles could have lived on as more bottles instead of other end of the line products.

I could bolster my Kevlar duds with a few layers of plastic sheeting to seal out liquids and vapors and add an outer coating of reflective aluminum to fend off the intense but short - lived radiant heat of a flash fire.

Eco-friendly, biodegradable food packaging made out of crabs and grapefruits could double the shelf - life of food and reduce plastic pollution, according to researchers in Singapore.

A hip made of living tissue could last longer than one made of metal or plastic, because they can wear out.

I need some Glass Dharma Straws in my life so I can cut out the rest of the plastic in my house!

Heidi Montag Says «a Lot of Positive Things» Came Out of Her Life - Threatening Plastic Surgery Procedures

In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series, David Lynch resurrects the teenager found wrapped in plastic at the beginning of the show, following her through the last week of her life and teasing out the enigmas that surround her murder.

The CGI effects of the third act action sequences don't live up to the high bar set as they start to take center stage over the practical combat, feeling a touch more plastic and taking some of the feeling of jeopardy out of it.

The Life Module passenger cell is made out of carbon - fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) while the drive systems and battery are packed into the aluminium Drive module as part of the marque's i LifeDrive architecture.

Nothing takes you out of an immersive simluator experience life cheap, plastic driving peripherals.

I want the world to know about all of the awesome heroes out there working to save animals and inspire others to do the same, whether it's helping put an end to puppy mills, boycotting animal attractions or fighting to save marine life from plastic pollution.

She also created a series of works out of vacuum - formed plastic resembling plants and marine life — an ironic commentary on the abuse nature continued to suffer at the hands of humanity.

Out of the use of modest materials such as cardboard, plywood, plastic and paint emerge monumental sculptures that play with our experience of living and looking.

January 12 — March 1, 2008 Jac Leirner creates installations, sculptures, and mixed media pieces using everyday objects like business cards, plastic bags, cigarette packs and banknotes, which are meant to live in transit; they circulate within our society with their final purpose to be destroyed and taken out of circulation.

The Malaysian - born, London - based artist uses the overly precious setting of the gallery space to pull objects — cooking utensils, kitchen fittings, plastic tubs, sheets of jute, etc — out of their utilitarian context in such a way as to force viewers to think about them as discrete objects, or things in and of themselves, while in the process challenging the assumptions we make about their functionality and attendant concerns such as, for example, the social status of the person who might own such an object, its role in their lives and that relation in respect to one's own style of living.

An early sight in the show is Tony Cragg's Runner, a wall relief from 1985 in which a life - sized running figure has been splendidly created out of things found on the shore — plastic cups, a spade handle, a cigarette lighter.

But Yayoi Kusama, one of Japan's most famous living artists, figured out a way to leave her distinctive, playful mark on the gloss» tiny plastic tubes.

Burri innovatively used the discarded debris of everyday life and utilitarian materials such as tar, sheet metal, plastic, and wood which he transformed by tearing and stitching, burning and pulling, giving the appearance that his only intervention was to bring out the natural colors, textures, and shapes already inherent in the material.

Amy Mahnick is an artist living in Brooklyn, NY who has been painting observed still life setups of sculptures she makes out of household plastics and other materials.

Advocates say the carbon footprint of bioplastics is better than fossil fuel - derived alternatives, which is true, but as «Life Without Plastic» points out, there's the added issue of supporting genetically modified corn production, which currently provides most material for bioplastics.

In Session 3, entitled «Consume Less Create More,» the steps in the life cycle of ballpoint pens is broken out from production to disposal, or as some say from womb to tomb: the oil drilling for the plastic, the mining for the metal, the chemicals for the ink, the factories for production, the trucks for transport to market and ultimately to the landfill and the resulting air, ground, and water pollution that accompanies each step.

Brookman points out that plastic bags have become omnipresent in our lives, despite the efforts of cities like San Francisco to ban them.

Check out the following list of resources to learn how you can get involved, educate others around you, and banish plastic straws forever from your life.

This also means that they're nearly impossible to filter out at wastewater plants and most end up in the ocean, to the detriment of marine life — and ultimately, inside humans, too, as a third of our food is thought to be contaminated by these plastic microfibers.

From plastic waste to health concerns to social etiquette, there are reasons why I don't want to cut meat out of my life completely.

For more information about how plastic waste affects our oceans and marine wildlife, join One Green Planet's #CrushPlastic movement and more simple solutions to cutting plastic out of your life!

This video shows why plastic pollution is detrimental to marine life and why single - use plastics, such as drinking straws, are one of the most useless items made out of plastic, and destructive if they end up in our oceans.

The locals of such towns make a living chopping up and melting down toxic plastics and metals out of the mountains of trash, which are not unlike the opium that the British forced upon China in the 19th century.

Another highlight from the show was Jonathan Kaiser's Janet II, a personal, portable vessel made out of garbage including chairs and plastic bags that show the second life that «garbage» potentially can have.

«After picking myself up off the floor, plastic became all I could notice out in the world — the phenomenal amount of plastic that passes through our daily lives in the form of packaging and all of the «stuff» we're marketed to believe we need — and then it was all I could notice on the ground, no matter where I walked.»

But a new alternative is on the way, and if this Kickstarter project reaches its goal, straws made from actual straw could be another way to get the plastic out of our lives.

No, we rounded out our tour with a visit to one of the most sophisticated recycling centers in all of Latin America — one that uses a GPS tracking system, state - of - the - art glass and plastic grinders, and one that regularly recycles a whopping 30 percent of the Galapagos» most populated island's waste.For a frame of reference, that's the same rate that we recycle back in the US, and the standard of living in the Galapagos is far beneath ours.

The camera isn't fantastic, the battery life isn't revolutionary, the screen is a tad washed out, and it's constructed out of plastic.

The LS30 are made mostly out of plastic, aren't hugely flexible, and don't really live up to their maker's claim of premium build quality.

The painters made big tents out of plastic, tape and even poles to basically create a «painting booth» for spraying in our living room and entry.

As gCaptain describes it in his «Crazy S # $ @ Rich People Do» section: «Johan's Ark, as it is being informally called, is built to the same biblical proportions as laid out in the book of Genesis but with some slight upgrades, including a Bible museum, plastic animals, and a live walk in bird cage to give visitors that «authentic feel».