Trash and assorted garbage collected from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which has up to 16
times more plastic in it than previously thought.
«Great Pacific Garbage Patch growing rapidly, study shows: New analysis reveals the region contains as much as sixteen
times more plastic than previously estimated, with pollution levels increasing exponentially.»
That's three to 10
times more plastic than scientists
Not exact matches
Over
time, as people became
more and
more aware of the effects commonly used products can have on the environment,
plastic - happy clients who once cared mostly for cost and convenience morphed into savvy customers with real concerns about the impact polyethylene and other petroleum - based products have on the ecosystem.
Such capital - intensive growth is not without considerable risks, but investing in
more than you need — C.R.
Plastic's latest home is three
times the size of its previous headquarters — can be smart, «[if] you've got good market indicators that you will grow into it,» according to Susan Rohac, vice-president of growth and transition capital for Ontario and Atlantic Canada at BDC.
There may be
more than 16
times as much
plastic in the vortex than previous studies have estimated, according to the Ocean Cleanup researchers.
At the same
time, food processors continue to raise the bar in terms of food safety in their processes, increasing the pressure on manufacturers such as Commodore
Plastics to meet
more stringent requirements.
and I ordered some SILPATS which are way
more expensive but I have used them many
times and never have they made that terrible
plastic burning smell and smoking.
I might pick some up next
time and use that instead of
plastic bags, it will be a lot
more eco-friendly too.
Demand for Goplasticpallets.com's range of lightweight, nestable
plastic pallets has reached an all -
time high, says the supplier, as
more companies that..
«I've been working in the pallet industry for
more than 35 years and in that
time I've seen a phenomenal progression, not just in the design and development of different sizes and styles of
plastic pallets to suit an ever growing range of applications, but also in customers perceptions about their benefits and uses.
Repeat this step one
more time, then wrap tightly in
plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Of course you can pile them on a plate and cover them with some
plastic wrap but with just a little bit
more time and effort you can present your neighbors with something a little
more special.
A club run by joe Lewis lol when was the last fuking
time Spurs won a trophy give it a fuking rest Wenger has won
more trophies then spuds in their whole fuking history Sick of
plastic fans constantly knocking the manager and players like you are fuking genius experts in knowing all about football We have the worst fan base in football a bunch of ingrates Why would any top player come and join Arsenal when they see how fans treat their own players like ozil Lol at people talking about Spurs and pool fukers don't win any trophies but their fans stay loyal ours turn nasty every game werther we win or lose It won't change even if we get a new manager they will turn on him at first defeat What we need is for the vocal minority of
plastic key board fans to fuk off and stop bringing the club down Coyg
If you want to talk mediocrity look at other teams other then Man U even Chelsea and you will understand what mediocrity is Morons like you will never appreciate what Wenger has done for Arsenal football club Certainly
more then the current
plastic moronic fanbase at Arsenal I've been a season ticket holder since 1976 and this is the worst fanbase I have seen in that
time BeforfNs start saying we pay top money my answer is don't come t the ground we don't need stupid fans better to have half empty stadium full of real fans then morons taking out their real frustrations of failure on the team Just ask spuds fans who seem to back their team even though they have only won 2 trophies in 30 years and only been in the cl 4
times as opposed to the cabinet Full of trophies that Wenger has delivered plus a new stadium and works class stars that have played for us in his tenure.
I also love not using, not taking the
time to close tightly, and not filling landfills with
more plastic sandwich / snack baggies!
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Mine was stuffed with the aforementioned junk food plus healthy snacks (untouched), new books, (
more interesting), new trinket - y toys from the dollar store (wrapped for even
more fun), diapers, wipes, sippy cup, cherished blanket (guard with your life), 2 changes of clothes for her (you never know), a change of clothes for me (you never know),
plastic bags (to hold the aforementioned possible laundry), and her pacifier to help her ears for landing (the only
times she slept on both flights).
When I was a single mom and a little
more stressed for
time, I probably would've had a use for food pouches, basically baby food in a
plastic pouch that a child can squeeze right into their mouth.
These carriers look a little
more like the heavy - duty
plastic baby carriers that have been popular for a long
time, but they are still made of fabric and therefore much
more comfortable for both you and your baby to use.
Sure, it's sometimes hard to relax for a breast pump, with its noises and
plastic parts, but taking the
time to create a calm pumping environment will help you produce
more breast milk.
Stainless lasts a long
time and through multiple children so they are economical as well as practical, even if the per cup price is a bit
more that what you can buy in the
plastic cup section at Walmart.
It's the first
time the federal government suggested we need to know
more about BPA, a handy substance used to make
plastic rigid and found in such products as
plastic baby bottles, sippy cups, sports water bottles, dental sealants, cans of baby formula and bike helmets.
While old - fashioned
plastic disposables are a definite no - no, it turns out that washing, bleaching and drying cloth diapers several
times may actually be
more harmful to the environment than swaddling your baby's booty in modern, biodegradable, chlorine - free disposables.
By repeating our messages together — the same topic at the same
time — we can reach
more people than we ever could individually with a basic message of: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Refuse (and Avoid toxins and
plastics!).
After you have boiled them for the first
time there is no need to do this again under normal circumstances, and
more boiling can actually damage your parts and break down the
plastic that they are made of.
According to a 2005 study by the Scottish government, it requires roughly four
times as much energy and
more water to make a paper bag than a
plastic bag, though the completed paper bags are much less likely to become litter.
As violence inside correctional facilities has become
more prevalent, so too does the existence of contraband like drugs and
plastic weapons that evade metal detectors over the same period of
time.
After adjusting for age, tumor location, and stage, researchers from Cleveland Clinic's Dermatology &
Plastic Surgery Institute discovered that women diagnosed with malignant melanoma during their pregnancy or within one year of giving birth were 5.1 -
times as likely to die, 6.9 -
times as likely to experience metastasis, and 9.2 -
times more likely to have a recurrence.
Energy - intensive industries such as chemicals,
plastics and steel will have a critical cost advantage, she said, noting that natural gas prices now are roughly five
times more expensive in Japan than in the United States, three
times more expensive in the European Union, and twice as expensive in China.
Says Zeitlin, «This is the first study using observations from space to confirm what has been thought for some
time — that
plastics and other lightweight materials are pound - for - pound
more effective for shielding against cosmic radiation than aluminum.
The results, published today in Scientific Reports, reveal that the GPGP, defined as the area with
more than 10 kg of
plastic per km2, measures 1.6 million square kilometers, three
times the size of continental France.
«Our waste - pickers will earn 15 to 20
times more for the same amount of
plastic,» says Pai.
Other advanced materials like
plastics, magnesium and carbon fiber may gain
more of automakers» attention beyond the 2025
time frame and are already being adopted in parts of the industry.
«When we analysed the smaller fractions, which are called fluff and fragment, the
plastic leakage was
more than a hundred
times greater than when we only counted the pellets.
The scientists also point out that this pattern of delayed development appears to have increased over evolutionary
time, with our hominid ancestors presumably slowly gaining larger,
more plastic brains relative to modern chimpanzees.
A team at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington, tested
plastic fibres that had 10
times more surface area than the Japanese design, allowing for greater absorption.
The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the
time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water
more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper,
plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).
Femtosecond laser - assisted cataract surgery, called a capsulotomy, cuts circles in lens capsules that are 12
times more precise than those achieved by the traditional method, as well as leaving edges that are twice as strong in the remaining capsule, which serves as a pocket in which the
plastic replacement lens is placed.
Not only will stainless steel thermoses retain temperatures for long periods of
time, but,
more important, they will not leach unwanted chemicals as do the
more reactive
plastic varieties.
last
time I organized my stationery stuff, I put them in
plastic boxes but I much prefer this idea because it looks way
more attractive and I can put everything together so they're
more handy.
So much
more fun than those
plastic ones... pinning these and maybe I'll have
time to do this for the 2nd grade class tomorrow.
They are so much easier to carry since they can be slung over your shoulder, and most of the
time they hold much
more than a standard
plastic shopping bag ever could.
There's great humour, knowledge and deference to the source material, and
more than 250 little
plastic people to unlock if you're that into it — yet at the same
time, it's wrapped in a playstyle that's really starting to crack and fray at the edges.
Milla has continued to model and tour with her band,
Plastic Has Memory, in her free
time, and although it's rare to find the European beauty in mainstream film, she has an undeniable attraction that keeps us wanting
more.
But De Jong's clean, unpretentious feel for his characters anchors the posing, and by the
time we see Ayoub, roughed up but triumphantly wearing his
plastic crown and riding a horse, there's a sense that the director has transcended his influences for something
more personal.
After making minor changes to the environment, such as staggering lunch queues to give children
more time to eat, introducing tablecloths and replacing
plastic plates, knives and forks with crockery and cutlery, the average child threw away 38 per cent less food.
Fit these clear
plastic rings around Fraction Circles to explore degrees,
time, percent, and
more!.
Seats, door panels, carpets all look as if they've entered a witness relocation program from an outgoing 5 - series, while the dash and door - cap
plastics, rather shiny on our preproduction test cars, also will ring a
more muted Bavarian bell by the
time they make it to the showroom floor.
Some imperfections are the poor sound system performance, the cheap look of the
plastics, mainly on the doors, the noisy performance of the main front and rear wipers and a couple of tiny details that make the driver's every day life a little
more frustrating like that you have to press a button if you want to see the
time on the dashboard, the small digits (at least for over 45 years old drivers) on the trip computer and the difficulty on assembly of the Portable Infotainment Device in case you need it right now.