Sentences with phrase «ubiquitous plastics»

You know the stuff: straws, Styrofoam cups, grocery bags, lighters, disposable diapers and the ubiquitous plastic beverage bottles.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) Two Democratic state lawmakers from Manhattan on Monday called for a statewide ban on the ubiquitous plastic shopping bag and a fee on paper bags as a way to encourage renewable alternatives and crack down on one of the greatest sources of environmental pollution.

Two Democratic state lawmakers from Manhattan called for a statewide ban on the ubiquitous plastic shopping bag and a fee on paper bags as a way to encourage renewable alternatives and crack down on one of the greatest sources of environmental pollution.

The ubiquitous plastic moulded casing is guaranteed to deter the curious.

The canned air had a chemical smell, which I later discovered was traces of dry - cleaning fluid (trapped in those ubiquitous plastic bags) and mothballs, which usually contain paradichlorobenzene.

Avoid Bisphenol - A During Pregnancy Bisphenol - A is a ubiquitous plastic that interferes with sex differentiation and damages chromosomes.

Using the ubiquitous plastic petrol can as his iconic signature, Hazoumè undertakes monumental installations that act as metaphors of African place, history and identity.

The pink flamingo, the ubiquitous plastic bird whose natural habitat is the front lawns of America, is about to become an endangered species.

Via:: San Francisco Chronicle (Australian federal lawmakers, although able to ban incandescent bulbs at a moments notice, somehow lose their gumption for also banning the ubiquitous plastic bag, after years of prevaricating.

So when Davide Vigano starts talking about the need to reinvent the fashion industry via technology, anyone who has seen a person wearing Google Glass or the ubiquitous plastic wrist bands that track fitness goals might be forgiven for rolling their eyes: Both are decidely unfashionable outside the geek community.

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In the mid-2000s, however, sales began to take off with growing consumer acceptance of recycled plastic as a highly durable, and maintenance free, alternative to both vintage wooden furniture and the flimsy but ubiquitous injection molding plastic armchairs.

An MPP's call for a province - wide ban on all non-compostable coffee pods could give a jolt to the industry behind the ubiquitous single - use plastic cups, with one manufacturer saying recycling is the better way to tackle the waste.

I am also annoyed these products come in plastic bags with the ubiquitous warning about suffocation and please recycle.

BPA, a ubiquitous and dangerous chemical used in the manufacturing of many plastics, is found in water sources around the world.

That's the latest advice from researchers who have been warning about the ubiquitous chemical bisphenol - A (BPA), an estrogen - like compound used to make everything from shatterproof plastic baby bottles and food - can linings to bike helmets and eyeglass...

That's the latest advice from researchers who have been warning about the ubiquitous chemical bisphenol - A (BPA), an estrogen - like compound used to make everything from shatterproof plastic baby bottles and food - can linings to bike helmets and eyeglass lenses.

Plastic is undeniably the wonder material: It's cheap and versatile, and it is ubiquitous where we live, work and shop.

BPA, a common component of plastics used to contain food, is a type of estrogen that is ubiquitous in the environment.

It makes me happy to see her coming home without all the little plastic baggies ubiquitous from my childhood lunches!

Made of glossy BPA - free plastic, these clever containers will keep those ubiquitous LEGO pieces from getting underfoot.

The ubiquitous, easily torn, often doubled - up plastic bags from the grocery store — hoarded by dog owners, despised by the environmentally concerned and occasionally caught in trees — will soon cost at least a nickel in New York City.

BPA is a ubiquitous component in many plastics, including the form of polycarbonate used to make products such as water and baby bottles, sports equipment, medical and dental devices, and eyeglass lenses.

From poisoning and injuring marine life to the ubiquitous presence of plastics in our food to disrupting human hormones and causing major life - threatening diseases and early puberty, the exponential growth of plastics is threatening our planet's survival.

Researchers hoping to design new materials for energy uses have developed a system to make synthetic polymers — some would say plastics — with the versatility of nature's own polymers, the ubiquitous proteins.

For those of you who don't have one of these increasingly ubiquitous devices, it's a small, plastic band that you wear on your wrist (there are other tracker options as well).

A new study is the first to link the ubiquitous chemical — found in hard plastics, canned foods and paper receipts — with altered thyroid hormones in babies

Present in everyday items like panty hose and perfume, computers and catheters, baby rattles and billiard balls, plastics are so ubiquitous we seldom give them a second thought.

Residues of plastics have become ubiquitous in the environment — and in our bodies.

«One of the most ubiquitous and long - lasting recent changes to the surface of our planet is the accumulation and fragmentation of plastics,» wrote David Barnes, a lead author and researcher for the British Antarctic Survey.

The so - called PlantBottle from the Coca - Cola Co. is made by converting sugars from sugarcane farmed in Brazil into the polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic commonly used in the ubiquitous clear bottles for various beverages.

Also, it contained satisfying amounts of whale oil and baleen, the keratin fringes and fronds that span its huge mouth and filter seawater, and that were, confusingly, sold as «whalebone,» a substance so essential and ubiquitous it was the nineteenth century plastic.

BPA is a ubiquitous chemical found in most people and used to make polycarbonate plastic and found in some food cans and paper receipts.

According to the Marine Conservation Society, a charity in the United Kingdom, Brits go through 8.5 billion plastic straws a year, making straws one of the most ubiquitous items found during beach cleanups.

Then, the chemical industry became ubiquitous in the modern world, giving us plastics, amalgam dental fillings, pesticide and herbicide, and preservatives galore, just as a few examples.

For instance, Bisphenol - A, which is ubiquitous in the environment and large amounts of which can leach into food and liquids from plastic water bottles and the lining of aluminum cans, is shown to significantly block thyroid activity in all tissues except the pituitary, potentially contributing to or causing weight gain, fatigue, and depression but not detected by TSH testing (128,129,132,133,275).

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Packed with startling facts, eye - opening information, and much - needed humor, this documentary heightens awareness about our ubiquitous use of plastic bags, water bottles, drink cups, and food containers, among other items.

A «buyer's guide» to flexible plastic e-paper displays Display technology is ubiquitous — meaning we all spend a lot of time engaging with «screens» of some kind... most of which are made of glass.

Having said that, I still sometimes get caught out without one of those now - ubiquitous linen bags, and use a plastic one.

But those little pieces of plastic we so casually wield today weren't always so ubiquitous.

The restaurant itself is always busy and will test your ability to sit comfortably on Hanoi's ubiquitous tiny plastic stools.

As constructed as a screensaver, as ubiquitous as a discounted package holiday, this idea of summer can seem infinitely plastic and artificial.

In their use of Formica, a plastic laminate that became particularly popular and even ubiquitous in Brazilian homes, offices, and stores during the postwar era, de...

At a new presentation of his work — titled «Flow / / Flow», curated by Paul Luckraft, and part of the Zabludowicz Collection's «Invites» series — Ireland uses ubiquitous everyday items, a mainstay in the language of his sculptural installations: burger cartons, shoelaces, cable ties, breeze blocks, plastic bags and fluorescent tubing are all utilised.

Plastic Entanglements unfolds in three sections, charting a timeline — past, present, and future — of our ongoing engagement with this ubiquitous manmade material.

Ubiquitous in rural areas of Nigeria, where electricity supplies are at best unreliable, it shares space with plastic containers used for storing, cooking and serving food.

While browsing BoingBoing I came across this clever reusable tote made to look like the ubiquitous «Thank You» plastic bag.

Using more cardboard, paper, plastic, space, and fossil fuels than necessary to get things from one place to another is an ubiquitous eco-sin.

«Plastic is ubiquitous in modern society and seemingly unavoidable.

EDN next complained about «the ubiquitous presence of plastics in our food.»