Sentences with phrase «of styrofoam plates»

I also have a bunch of styrofoam plates around that I use to hold a little water and to remove some paint from my brushes when I get too much on them.

Unfortunately, this can result in excessive amounts of waste, as many hosts set out piles of Styrofoam plates, plastic cutlery, and plastic cups in order to reduce the amount of cleanup and broken glasses in the backyard.

I also have a bunch of styrofoam plates around that I use to hold a little water and to remove some paint from my brushes when I get too much on them.

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I will also look into and purchase a plate, bowl and cup to use in the cafeteria when I eat in there instead of their styrofoam ones.

The children then made boats with Styrofoam plates, plastic straws, wooden sticks, and other supplies before testing how the boats would fare when placed in a plastic tub of water.

The phasing out of plastic shopping bags and Styrofoam and plastic food utensils, such as clamshells, flat plates and cups, is a necessary pollution control measure to protect the terrestrial and marine environment from harmful plastic contamination.

Biodegradable alternatives to the plastic and Styrofoam products already exist on the Belizean market in the form of shopping bags, clamshells, coffee cups and plates manufactured from plant - based materials.

Created from a variety of source materials — including carved wooden doors, acid - etched metal plates, styrofoam dioramas, hand - carved billboards, and newly developed concrete sculptures -, the work presented in Annihilation engages with the urban context.

The shelves hold a copperized mold of a calcified tree that was found in a mine, a copper - plated styrofoam plate, and some fragments of minerals.

The first museum survey of Tara Donovan's sublime sculptures and installations, which are unexpected and ingenious assemblages of banal, everyday products ---- plastic and Styrofoam cups, wooden toothpicks, plastic drinking straws, paper plates, and Scotch tape — features sixteen works from 1996 to the present.

Birthday parties are a lot of work for parents, so I understand the desire to simplify, but I can't help feeling horribly guilty whenever I slide a dirty Styrofoam plate — piled with food scraps, a crumpled paper napkin, plastic cutlery, cup balancing on top — into a garbage bag that's been set out for this purpose.

Then there's the added energy cost of production, packaging, and transporting to stores and homes and away to landfill, where disposable plates and cups — which can be made of plastic, Styrofoam, virgin wood fibers, plastic - coated paper, post-consumer recycled fibers, or agricultural waste products such as bagasse, and are usually non-recyclable because they are contaminated with food residue — will sit for hundreds of years, slowly decomposing and releasing methane gas.

(NWF Daily News, Man accused of attacking brother with Styrofoam plate)

It's one of those deals where everyone is standing with Styrofoam plates, paper cups, and plastic utensils.