Sentences with phrase «pieces of plastic»

Remove other half of pastry from the fridge and roll out between two pieces of plastic wrap.

Between two pieces of plastic wrap, roll one disc of the chilled pate brisee out to about 1/2 ″ in thickness.

The shredded pieces of plastic are then formed into square blocks, wrapped in cellophane and shipped all over the world, primarily to China.

We have plastic islands out in the ocean twice the size of Texas that are made up of tiny pieces of plastic that look just like fish food (opposed to a solid mass of plastic).

I also just floured the top of the dough really well instead of using two pieces of plastic wrap, it worked just fine since the dough was less sticky with the extra flour.

(Natural News) You wouldn't dream of ordering a side of plastic with your meal, but you're already eating 100 pieces of plastic each day without even realizing it, according to an alarming new study.

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!).

Remove the dough from the fridge and place it between 2 large pieces of plastic wrap.

This year, the machine will bring back its first collection from the North Pacific Gyre, which has about 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic trash swirling around inside it.

Fox and Fiksel used two very powerful lasers to zap two tiny pieces of plastic in a vacuum chamber to 10 million degrees and create two colliding plumes of extremely hot plasma.

Seafood eaters ingest up to 11,000 tiny pieces of plastic every year, study shows New report looks at investment strategies for plastic - free seas.

Their work, published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, did find millions of pieces of plastic debris floating in five large subtropical gyres in the world's oceans.

Pull on most materials — be they t - shirts, rubber bands or pieces of plastic — and they stretch in one direction and become thinner in the other.

Plus it's cheap and easy to use: The polymer can be loaded into an inkjet cartridge and printed on pieces of plastic for quick and easy fingerprinting.

It's been a big year for plastic, from researchers developing self - recycling plastic to discovering trillions of pieces of plastic trapped in Arctic ice.

They may be deliberately manufactured, as is the case with microbeads in exfoliants or toothpastes, or may result from the breakdown of larger pieces of plastic or textiles.

Microscopic fragments of plastic — or microplastics — are pieces of plastic less than 5 mm in diameter and are a global marine pollutant.

ARTHUR C. Clarke was hooked on a toyshop game using 12 pieces of plastic, which he featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The pieces of plastic were then subjected to an increasing electric field until they crackled.

«In the central North Pacific Gyre, pieces of plastic outweigh surface zooplankton by a factor of 6 to 1,» according to a report based on Moore's research.

In total, 28 per cent of the fish sampled contained the debris, with one having 21 pieces of plastic inside it.

But some scientists suspect that even these tiny pieces of plastic can throw aquatic life for a loop.

Wyrick used a large DNA model made of interlocking pieces of plastic to explain.

Those garbage - bag ball gowns are now married in my mind with a photo of a Laysan albatross whose belly, slashed open by biologists, was jammed with 306 pieces of plastic flotsam — a surreal bird version of a junkyard.

Some aquatic creature had plastered one to two bright orange eggs about the size of a grain of rice onto several of the pieces of plastic — something these researchers had never seen before.

1.8 trillion pieces of plastic weighing 80,000 metric tons are currently afloat in an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — and it is rapidly getting worse.

To increase the surface area surveyed, and quantify the largest pieces of plastic — objects that include discarded fishing nets several meters in size — a C - 130 Hercules aircraft was fitted with advanced sensors to collect multispectral imagery and 3D scans of the ocean garbage.

Accumulated in this area are 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic, weighing 80,000 metric tons, the equivalent of 500 Jumbo Jets.

More than 100 personal care products, including facial scrubs and toothpaste, contain tiny pieces of plastic known as microbeads.

«When we look at yellow perch that we collected over the course of the winter, on average, they had about 8 to 9 pieces of plastic in each fish, and then we look at double - crested cormorants, that eat perch, and we found on average about 44 pieces of plastic in the cormorants,» said Mason.

Children can suffocate if they tear off pieces of the plastic liner and swallow them.

Stella the Seahorse, a sculpture made entirely of plastic marine debris removed from Pacific Coast beaches, is part of the collection of art made entirely of trash that offers Shedd visitors a powerful, visual reality of the proliferation of plastic pollution in the world's waterways through representations of marine animals using thousands of pieces of plastic in every color of the rainbow.

Did you know that in 2014, over two years ago, scientists estimated CONSERVATIVELY that there were at least 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic in the world's oceans.

Valves are little pieces of plastic that fit in the spout, that prevent the liquid from coming out, unless the baby actually sucks on the spout.

Place butterflied breast between 2 pieces of plastic wrap and gently pound until as thin as possible without tearing meat, ideally to about 1/4» thick and about 10» in diameter.

Split each chicken breast in half horizontally and lay each piece between two pieces of plastic wrap.

Place 1 chicken breast between two pieces of plastic wrap and, using a flat meat mallet or rolling pin, pound until it is 1 / 2 - inch thick.

Flatten the cookie dough into a disc between two pieces of plastic wrap.

Lay several large pieces of plastic wrap on your counter, overlapping them to form one very big square.

Lay some plastic wrap on a work surface so that it measures at least 20 × 20 inches; overlap a couple of pieces of plastic wrap as needed.

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.

Spoon into serving bowls and either serve warm or press small pieces of plastic wrap directly over the pudding and refrigerate until cold.

One particular advantage was their ability to detect small pieces of plastic.

Place each chicken breast half between two pieces of plastic wrap or wax paper.

If necessary, lay the beef slices between 2 pieces of plastic wrap and gently pound with a meat mallet to flatten and even out.

Roll out the remaining one - third of the dough between two pieces of plastic wrap until just slightly larger than the circumference of the pan.

Or you might find it easiest to roll it out between to Silpats or pieces of plastic.

Divide dough in half, and turn out onto two large pieces of plastic wrap.

Step 3On a flat surface, place the chicken thighs between two pieces of plastic wrap.

Step 2Place the chicken between two pieces of plastic wrap.