Sentences with phrase «by plastic in»

This research has confirmed that anchovies use a sense of smell to detect their food, and that they are confused, even attracted, by the scent released by plastic in the water.

In the 1950s, stainless steel trays showed up on the scene, but they were mostly replaced by plastic in the 1960s.

Not exact matches

He hoped to introduce a new priority for the consumer: to actively participate in recycling plastic waste by supporting sustainable products and companies.

Research shows that using laminated glass — two panes fused by a sheet of plastic and designed to hold its form even when shattered — could reduce ejections in other parts of the car.

The government said in March that it was studying the dangers posed to wildlife and the environment by the plastic microbeads, and on Thursday said the scientific review was still underway by Environment Canada along with an assessment of triclosan and phthalates.

Plastic - container producer Tupperware exceeded analysts» expectations in Q3, and Avon — makers of beauty products and fragrances — reported that its number of sales reps had grown by 11 % in 2009.

Printed materials can be used to replace bones: A woman in the Netherlands had much of her skull replaced by a printed plastic one, and a cancer patient in Spain received a printed titanium rib cage.

The most addictive drugs, like prescription opioids, are held in a so - called vault and packaged in specially sealed plastic bags by background - checked workers under the gaze of several cameras.

Eyelid surgery, which is especially popular among Asian women and the most popular plastic surgery in South Korea, is also sought by women in the US as an alternative to a brow lift.

In the auto - parts unit, efforts have been focused on the former, mostly by engineering plastic components to serve as lightweight substitutes for components made of heavier materials.

McDonald's Japan has apologized to customers and vowed to ensure product safety after objects including a tooth and plastic were found in its food, the latest trouble for a fast - food chain hit by sliding sales and a shortage of french fries.

Using new gas - injection technology that creates gas bubbles in the middle layer of the bottle wall, the company reduced the amount of plastic that goes into each container by 15 %, which works out to about 275 tonnes of plastic a year.

For instance, traditional plastics - recycling equipment would be destroyed by any metal in the feed.

In the future he hopes to scale up by building more recycling plants — and thus producing the megasupply of processed plastics needed to attract bigger customers.

But a new initiative, introduced by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation in a report published in advance of the World Economic Forum, proposes creating a circular economy for plastics.

The We - Vibe has always been made from medical - grade silicone, challenging the idea that sex toys are by definition cheap, plastic and sold in stores with neon signs and nylon bunny costumes in the window.

Tears for Life, a team developing a breast cancer tear kit that analyzes a patient's tears, came in second; followed by neoPlastics, a plastic recycling technology firm; and Tetra One Source, which has patented a process for reducing soil toxicity.

In reality, he's more of a mutt: a crossbreed fashioned out of plastic and animated by sensors, motors, thousands of strings of computer code — and the boyhood dreams of a pair of inventors who spent nearly two years perfecting their toy.

Once a week, Pedro instructed his crew on how to ship cash back to his bosses in Mexico: separate the bills by denomination, bundle the money, bag the bundles in plastic, vacuum - and heat - seal them, stick in some fabric softener to mask the scent, and then wrap them again in plastic wrap and duct tape.

To avoid detection by drug - sniffing dogs, each key is sheathed in a rubber membrane, swathed with plastic wrap, and then wrapped once more in duct tape.

So Newlife has found an opportunity in this risk by attempting to close the loop on our plastic consumption.»

«The cosmetic - surgery industry in Colombia is very well developed with many excellent surgeons who are certified by the SCCP (Colombian Plastic Surgery Association),» says Nancy Kiernan, IL Colombia Correspondent.

«We know from our experience in other international markets that an incentive in the form of a fee to encourage customers to adopt reusable bags reduces single - use plastic bags by more than 50 %.

Hmm, so you're telling me that a «heat shield» that was made of «special plastic» (as NASA called it back in the day), which was nothing but epoxy smeared over a ss honey comb «protected» the astros barreling into the upper atmosphere at hypersonic 5 miles / sec, or well over 30 times the velocity of a jumbo - jet and thru temperatures *** as quoted by NASA *** that are «10 times hotter than the surface of the sun», and then they «braked» with only a parachute to a safe splashdown?

More than seven billion plastic bags were handed out by seven main retailers in 2014, but this figure dropped to just over half a billion in the first six months of this year after the 5p charge was introduced in October last year, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said.

A Christian charity's hailing a 5p tax which has caused plastic bag use to go down by more than six billion since it came in.

The call to confession «invite people to get in touch with themselves and asks where they feel some empty spaces in their lives» (symbolized by a display of empty, clear plastic bags on the communion table), as if admitting emptiness were the same as confessing sin, and as if sin were merely the absence of good.

Summoned: Identification and Religious Life in a Jewish Neighborhood by iddo tavory chicago, 224 pages, $ 27.50 In a clear plastic Ikea storage bin that my wife and I have been hauling across North America every time I take a new academic job, I recently found an old Christmas carin a Jewish Neighborhood by iddo tavory chicago, 224 pages, $ 27.50 In a clear plastic Ikea storage bin that my wife and I have been hauling across North America every time I take a new academic job, I recently found an old Christmas carIn a clear plastic Ikea storage bin that my wife and I have been hauling across North America every time I take a new academic job, I recently found an old Christmas card.

Indeed, if the only practical ethical standard left is the principle of consent, then in a world pervaded by pornography, society's sexual ethics are likely to be as plastic as our neural pathways.

An 18 - member volunteer group will arrive in Puerto Rico by the end of the weekend, bringing heavy - duty shelter plastic, hygiene kits, and more generators via Samaritan's Purse aircraft.

that is the word... if we all took on the importance of our own relationship with God and actually did something about it by steping outside of the little boxes that we make or the walls that have been built up between us, we could all take off the plastic masks and realize that most of the important work for a Christian is what secretly goes on in the relationship between the believer and God... a lot of the pretence and lies would not be able to survive the truth that would be sweeping through the minds and hearts of believers.

In dealing with everyone mashed up against their stands, all keen and grabby for their conference swag — lanyards and laminated ID cards, clear plastic backpacks full of conference paraphernalia brought to you by the Knights of Columbus, World Meeting of Families — branded water bottles and T - shirts, green for mom and dad, blue for the kids — the parish ladies were understandably harried.

When such a condition occurs in a male, the easiest form of plastic surgery by far, with a view to correcting the abnormality and gaining a cosmetically satisfactory appearance, is to remove all the male parts, including the testes, and to construct from the tissues available a labial and vaginal configuration.

They violate health codes, torture animals, pay minimum wages with minimum benefits, prevent workers from unionizing, import plastic crap from China (Walmart), pollute the environment (Tyson), drive once proud poultry farmers into becoming wage slaves (Tyson), sell cheap products with high - profits produces by «modern slaves» in China and other third - world countries (Walmart),... WWJB?

Cares enormously about children in resettlement camps, who must drink water to fill their stomachs because there is no food; he cares about shivering women at Nyanga whose flimsy plastic shelters are being destroyed by police; He cares that the influx control system together with Bantunization are destroying black family life not accidentally but by deliberate government policy; He cares that people die mysteriously in detention; He cares that something horrible is happening in this country when a man will often mow down his family before turning the gun on himself; He cares that life seems so dirt cheap (cited in Maimela 1986:43).

Jesus will always prove intractably enigmatic, indeed an impossible subject for plastic representation of any kind, precisely because He is a Subject who by His very nature resists being subjected to what we deem to be observable being interpreted exclusively in terms of cosmic perceptibility (p. 23).

Ockham's Triumph has intersected with another aspect of the «worse»: The metaphysical vacuum ably limned by Hanby has been filled by a new Gnosticism (chiefly but not exclusively embodied in the sexual revolution) that teaches that everything in the human condition is plastic and malleable and therefore subject to change by acts of will (like transgendering surgery).

Reynard the Fox: A New Translationtranslated by james simpsonliveright, 256 pages, $ 24.95 A few weeks ago I found in my mailbox a brand - new, plastic - sealed, hardcover copy of Shakespeare's complete works, sporting on its cover a close - up hellfire picture of a jester's cap and bells, which looked....

Divide dough in 2 portions (for two double crusts) or 4 - 5 portions (for 4 - 5 single crusts) and wrap each section well by wrapping first in plastic wrap and then insert into a ziplock bag.

I usually take one or two out of the freezer at night, put them in a little plastic container, and they're ready to grab and eat by morning.

September 2014 — The new lightweight, low - profile tube and closure solution developed by TricorBraun in cooperation with Silgan Plastics will be exhibited at the Silgan Booth (N5242) at Pack Expo International 2014 at McCormick Place in Chicago this November.

If you have extra avocado on hand, preserve it by sprinkling with citrus juice and wrapping tightly in plastic wrap before storing in the refrigerator.

Dry ingredients like nuts, beans, tea, spices, flour and even almond butter can all be purchased in bulk — and by bulk we mean you can purchase as much or as little as you need — no boxes, plastic packaging or paper necessary.

To prepare chicken souvlaki, I start by mixing marinate ingredients, oregano, garlic, lemon, olive oil, parsley, chili flakes, and cumin powder in a bowl or a seal - able plastic bag.

A new report published by the Flexible Packaging Association has shed light on the hygiene risks of using flexible plastic packaging in the beauty industry.

Mary — I'm talking about the stuff that comes vacuum packed or the stuff that comes wrapped tightly in plastic (this is what I mean by dry - packed) vs. the stuff that comes in water, like buffalo mozzarella.

Currently, all single polymer plastic containers are banned from disposal in the state by the Massachusetts Waste Bans.

A ban on plastic straws, drinks stirrers and cotton buds could be in place in England next year after a consultation was announced by Prime Minister Theresa May today (19 April).

Environment Secretary Michael Gove, who was questioned by MPs yesterday (19 April) on the aims of the government's 25 Year Environment Plan, has been hinting at a ban on plastic straws since February, but in terms of legislative action, Scotland is a few steps ahead of England: Scottish Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham announced firm intentions to ban plastic straws in February.

These are super cute in glass dishes — and very presentable when dressed up with extra sprigs of mint and even fresh raspberries — these were also picked fresh from our garden by the kids just before we served them;) You could also serve them in plastic dishes (clear - plastic would be great for outdoor entertaining) or use a spring form and make it a tart!