Sentences with phrase «of plastic bags in»

In 2008, the government of Québec set the goal of reducing by 50 % the use of plastic bags in the province by 2012.

According to Jornal A Tribuna, six years ago, a Minke whale was found dead in Normandy, France, with 800 pounds of plastic bags in its stomach.

Also, contact your local elected officials and urge them to ban the use of plastic bags in your community.

Her collection of hand - blown glass plastic bags evokes the dance of plastic bags in the eddy currents of an office building.

You can see of those plastic bags in the pics - however, in the more touristy places fresh juice is served in a glass.

A law banning the production and use of plastic bags in Ivory Coast is set to take effect from November 23.

As a sit - in was held outside his offices, the governor proposed a bill banning the use of plastic bags in grocery stores, beginning in 2019.

As a sit - in was held outside his offices, the governor proposed a bill banning the use of plastic bags in grocery stores, beginning in 2019.

The fate of plastic bags in New York — handed out by the billions by grocers, clothing stores, carry - out places and many other retailers — remains up in the air in the wake of a report by a state task force.

The containers are perfect, I can't tell you how excited I am to think of a school year without that dreaded wrestling of plastic bags in the morning.

Not exact matches

The reflexive answer to how much plastic bags should cost is to add the cost of materials and labor in making them, but we know that answer is insufficient.

Early reports suggest retailers are continuing to charge 5 cents for plastic bags in the meantime, following city council's lead of completely ignoring the mayor.

That plastic sheet might be converted into any number of seemingly unrelated products: a flexible bag to package nuts for retail sale; a liner (officially a «geomembrane») meant to sit atop a water reservoir; or a vapour barrier used in walls in newly built residential construction projects.

Considering the fact that the program has diverted billions of plastic bags from landfill since being implemented in 2009, it was a classic Ford move.

On a recent Friday afternoon when I stopped in, an elderly woman stood ready at the cash register in front of a row of neatly hung plastic bags, all filled with prescription medications ready for pickup.

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.

Then, fill that envelope with plastic bags and send it in courtesy of prepaid shipping printed on the ad.

After vigorously swabbing the inside of my cheeks, I seal - locked my specimen in a plastic bag, overnighted the sample to a lab on the East Coast and awaited the results.

Shopping bags went from plastic to paper, and purchases were wrapped in pink tissue, neither of which was offered in Canadian locations at the time.

In June 2009, as a response to widespread calls for bans or other anti-bag measures from environmental groups, the city of Toronto required that all local stores charge 5 cents for every plastic bag they handed out.

Mississauga, ON., January 25, 2016 — Walmart Canada today announced that beginning Feb. 9, 2016, it will stop providing free plastic bags to customers in an effort to promote the use of reusable bags and ultimately eliminate plastic film from land - fill.

«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 %.

Romy Tittel, Leader of the Green Party of Alberta and Catriona Wright, Shadow Cabinet member for Sustainable Towns and Cities, strongly encourages the Alberta Government to quickly adopt the following in order to keep recyclables out of the landfill: An immediate plastic bag ban.

Even in the pouring rain, one man offered one of us his plastic bag he was using as a raincoat.

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.

Pack lunch in a Bento style box with compartments for different foods, which don't require any of those little plastic sandwich bags.

But if a newborn is found in a plastic bag in a dumpster there is an outcry of how could a mother do this to her child.

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.

Los Angeles, California (CNN)- At first glance, the blown - up plastic bags affixed to a jungle gym - like frame residing in a University of Southern California courtyard looks like a piece of public art, pure and simple.

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.

Just as expected, I found the plastic bag of giblets nestled inside the chest cavity, but there was something else rattling around in there I wasn't so sure about, some kind of bone.

At our station, we had bins of soy, rice, dehydrated carrots, vitamin and flavor sachets, and a simple funnel for pouring all of this in right proportions into sturdy plastic bags that would then be boxed and sent off to another station to be sealed.

Maybe it's making for «no straw» in your drink when you go out, bringing your own bags to the grocery store, getting coffee or a smoothie in your own cup / jar, bringing your own silverware when you're out and about, switching from paper to cloth napkins, buying bread from a local bakery or making it yourself instead of buying in plastic, switching to a menstrual cup or washable cloth pads instead of disposable, there's so many different ways to produce less waste.

Established in 1991 and headquartered in Livingston, N.J., Inteplast Group is a major manufacturer that has built a wide range of amazingly diverse and synergistic product lines, including packaging, industrial and stretch films; bags of all types; PVC products; injection molded items; and many other plastic products that allow it to successfully serve most major market segments, including foodservice.

When it comes out of oven i cut it up like flapjacks and put on wire rack to cool, then put all the little squares in the freezer in a plastic bag.

Nowadays you can buy packages of arepas at many Latin grocery stores, but you can also easily make them at home and keep them in plastic bags in the freezer.

They also had these cool cookie plate covers over in the grocery section of mine — they were plastic bags fit to drop a plate of cookies in and then tie the top, almost how you make for a big gift basket?

Next, drizzle the avocado cream over each taco using a spoon or plastic bag and making a hole in one of the corners.

Since they were made right in the paper tray now just cover with two pieces of plastic wrap and put back into bag.

Then I notice the pieces of Ziploc plastic all over the counter and the gaping hole in the bread bag.

I had the cinnamon swirl filling exactly the right consistency (hard to push out of bag, even) however, I believe you need to cut a miniscule sized hole in the plastic baggy, so that the swirls are pretty small, and make sure not to get the cinnamon swirl anywhere close to the edge of the pancake.

Place chicken legs, juiced pieces of fruit, and quartered onions in large plastic bags or bowl.

In defense of the rice ones from Trader Joe's (AKA Food for Life brand at any other store)-- yes, they break and yes, they do not behave like a regular tortilla and are frustrating but WOW do they make the best quesadillas and if you have a problem with corn, try cutting them up into chips and frying them up in an inch of olive oil in a 4 quart pot on the stove — the BEST tortilla chips that stay crispy and do not turn stale if you put them in a plastic zippered bag for up to a few (yes few) weekIn defense of the rice ones from Trader Joe's (AKA Food for Life brand at any other store)-- yes, they break and yes, they do not behave like a regular tortilla and are frustrating but WOW do they make the best quesadillas and if you have a problem with corn, try cutting them up into chips and frying them up in an inch of olive oil in a 4 quart pot on the stove — the BEST tortilla chips that stay crispy and do not turn stale if you put them in a plastic zippered bag for up to a few (yes few) weekin an inch of olive oil in a 4 quart pot on the stove — the BEST tortilla chips that stay crispy and do not turn stale if you put them in a plastic zippered bag for up to a few (yes few) weekin a 4 quart pot on the stove — the BEST tortilla chips that stay crispy and do not turn stale if you put them in a plastic zippered bag for up to a few (yes few) weekin a plastic zippered bag for up to a few (yes few) weeks.

A small bag of organic nuts can easily set you back $ 5 - 7, whereas you can buy a bag of them in bulk for just a little bit more, AND for double, if not triple, the amount — all whilst saving on plastic packaging too, if you bring your own container.

Make ahead and freeze options: Make the quiche filling ahead of time and store in a sealed plastic bag in the freezer until you are ready to use it.

After cooled, slice bars and either individually seal in small bags or plastic wrap and place in a larger freezer safe container or large freezer bag OR simply layer the bars in a freezer safe container laying waxed paper between the layers of bars.

They will keep for a couple of months in a plastic bag.

Place chicken and vegetables in large plastic ziplock bags and pour 1/2 of the Elderberry Lime Marinade over each, letting marinade in the fridge for at least two hours up to eight hours.

After cooled, either individually seal in small bags or plastic wrap and place in a larger freezer safe container or large freezer bag OR simply layer the brownie bites in a freezer safe container laying waxed paper between the layers of brownies.

I wrapped the cookies in sets of two in cling wrap, then placed them in sandwich bags and then layered the sandwich bags in plastic containers.