Sentences with phrase «continued use of plastic»

A petition started by global advocacy group SumOfUs is calling on the fast food giant to conduct a study that would examine the «business risks» associated with continued use of plastic straws, «arguing that their continued use could cost McDonald's environmentally aware customers.»

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We believe MasterCard, which has been achieving strong revenue and earnings growth, will continue to benefit from the global trend in spending toward using plastic instead of paper.

Every acre of land farmed using a black plastic system produces 100 - 120 lb of waste... Continued

The Boomerang Alliance, along with groups like the Total Environment Centre, will use Thursday's inquiry to call for a container deposit scheme, a ban on single - use plastic shopping bags and microbeads in laundry and cosmetic products, and continued enforcement of existing regulations.

Nonetheless, other uses of plastics aside from packaging (e.g. domestic ware) will continue to experience growth as consumer disposable incomes continue to rise.

We continue to realize how important it is to eliminate the use of plastic for food storage for both the environment and our own health and how instrumental Bee's Wrap has become in realizing this in our own homes.

Well, I've been roundly criticized by Lunch Tray readers today for accepting so easily my district's explanation on why we use a flimsy spork instead of plastic forks... [Continue reading]

There are many practical reasons to continue using plastic bottles, but I'd recommend adding in a set of these glass bottles and seeing how it goes.

Discussions continue on the enactment of a surcharge on the use of plastic bags, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on Monday said.

Although officials largely stamped out the practice of adding melamine to food, most people continue to be exposed to the substance, an industrial chemical also used in other plastics, flooring and whiteboards.

One of the things that makes plastic so heavily used domestically and commercially - its durability - also makes it a major problem for our oceans, and will continue to do so for generations.

New York (would mandate euthanasia by injection or EBI), Pennsylvania (would also ban chloroform, ether, halothan, fluothane, or similar substance when used in an airtight chamber or plastic bag, North Carolina (would mandate EBI), Georgia (EBI mandated already for dogs and cats and bill would close loopholes that allow many counties to continue to use CO gas; the bill would allow heartstick only if the animal is unconscious, heavily sedated or comatose), West Virginia (would ban new Co gas chambers), New Mexico, Louisiana (would ban CO chambers for dogs and cats and also ban heartstick unless the «animal is unconscious or rendered completely unconscious and insensitive to pain through the injection of an anesthetic») and Michigan (would also ban CO2).

Credit card interest rates keep moving higher — The cost of using credit cards continues to rise, giving consumers yet another reason to keep their plastic in their wallets.

Equally important to providing top - notch quality to happy guests for Peter and Lapoint is the environmental impact of our activities; — We've put a lot of effort into tracking and reducing the use of plastic, water and other resources to minimise our footprint and we aim to continue that at Quinta Lizandro.

Only 5 % of the plastic we use is being recycled, the rest is single - use plastic such as food wrappers, straws,... Continue reading Bali's biggest beach clean up 2018

His re-evaluation and playful subversion of the tableau tradition continues throughout the works in the exhibition, shown in his use of disposable materials, such as wooden veneer, bungee cords and plastic washing baskets and brooms.

SA — As much as I admire your views and contributions here, I'm sure you understand solutions to any of the myriad problems facing the planet will not be solved in 5 years, particularly with «zero fossil fuel use», which would mean no more plastic food packaging, minimal, if any of the vital chemical compounds common to our «modern» lifestyle, and few of the medicines currently insuring our extended lifetimes and continuing population growth.

It can easily replace diesel and teh oils used in manufacturing of plastics and can also be refined into jet fuel and other petroleum products... MIT has a bioreactor that is carbon negative (I believe)... I'm not a scientist (obviously), but it seems to me that this, along with wind, solar and tidal would go a long long way to solving some of these issues, at a fraction of the cost of continuing to drill and extract.

flxible wrote: ``... «zero fossil fuel use», which would mean no more plastic food packaging, minimal, if any of the vital chemical compounds common to our «modern» lifestyle, and few of the medicines currently insuring our extended lifetimes and continuing population growth...»

It continues to serve billions of its iconic white paper cups that are extremely difficult to recycle because of the plastic lining, along with masses of single - use plastic lids, its signature green straws, and cutlery.

On May 24, McDonald's shareholders will vote on a proposal to launch a study that would consider the «business risks» of continuing to use plastic straws in U.S. restaurants and look into alternatives, The Mercury News reported Monday.

The Galaxy S5 also continued Samsung's longstanding tradition of using shoddy - feeling plastic that tries to look premium but in reality is just a painted plastic smartphone.