In February 2017, the governor signed a bill killing a law that would have levied a fee of five cents
a piece on plastic bags in New York City.
Not exact matches
** Since I only use one chipotle pepper at a time, I put a
piece of
plastic wrap
on a small baking sheet, spread the other peppers from the can
on the
plastic, freeze it and then store it in a freezer
bag.
You can also cut out some
pieces of
plastic (either Ziploc or a
plastic shopping
bag) which you put
on either side of the dough to keep it from sticking.
Toss 3/4 cup Silver Swan soy sauce (or any kind, but this was what my family uses — it's made in the Philippines — and it adds a slightly sweeter flavor), 1 cup rice vinegar, 15 garlic cloves, 2 tablespoons black peppercorns, 3 bay leaves, 3 Thai chiles (more or less depending
on your heat sensitivity), 2 tablespoons palm sugar (if you can't find it at the store, sugar in the raw will work), and a 2 - inch
piece of ginger with 8 chicken drumsticks in a
plastic bag and marinate — no bowl or pan washing required.
Although it is clear that «degradable»
plastic bags, for example, will fall apart in the environment, the resulting fragments can persist for a long time, and there are no long - term studies
on these
pieces.
On top of that,
plastic bags are the second most common ocean waste (after cigarette butts) and they harm thousands of species of ocean wildlife each year (with an estimated 40,000 +
pieces of
plastic floating in each square mile of the ocean!).
Landing (Mist Parts Over Columbus Circle), 2017, medical records, credit card offers, tiki decorations, nature calendars,
plastic tablecloths,
plastic bags, Dora the Explorer puzzle
pieces, photo, maps and oil
on chicken wire and wood, 48 x 66 x 4 inches.
In «Pieceable Kingdom,»
on view in MAD's project space, the artist explores our obsession with nature and the ideal of the sublime through a late Capitalist lens, as evidenced by the
pieces of
plastic Walmart
bags, ads for Sandals resort vacations, and pre-approved credit card applications that reveal themselves upon closer inspection.
As my eyes scanned the large industrial warehouse where it was installed, I saw bare walls and a floor dotted with dozens of groupings of discarded materials — cloth, cardboard boxes,
plastic bags,
pieces of wood, and so
on.
Every coffee cup,
plastic bag, pizza box, every single
piece of trash he creates will be
on his body, everywhere he goes.»
Nearly all the
pieces of
plastic are recognizable — pens, straws, water bottles, cutlery, wrappers, condiment
bags, bottle caps, and food containers — except they're the dirty, used, cracked, abandoned versions that many of us leave
on the ground or toss into a garbage can as quickly as possible.