Sentences with phrase «war on plastic»

As the war on plastic cranks up, companies must carefully navigate a number of complex challenges and pitfalls, argues Hubbub co-founder Trewin Restorick

The United Nations has declared war on plastic.

From the U.S. to the European Union to Australia, the West is waging war on plastic.

The Channel Tunnel train operator is joining the war on plastic, among other sustainability measures.

Our to go items are always jarred in glass vessels, consistent with our war on plastic.

THE so - called war on plastic is tackling the symptoms rather than the disease.

Tackling the Issue: The Plastic Strategy Earlier this year, UK Prime Minister, Theresa May announced a war on plastic waste, with proposed policies aimed at eliminating all avoidable plastic waste within 25 years.

A war on plastic has been declared, and tea bags are the next culprit to be brought to light by the media.

Indeed, as the new executive director says in her introductory note at the Vinyl Building Council, green building is on the run and the war on plastics is being pushed back at all levels of government.

Not exact matches

Jim Scott came up with a great idea during a visit to the office of a friend who worked at PepsiCo — putting plastic figurines of characters from popular TV shows and movies, including Stars Wars, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Disney, on top of a bottled beverage.

The idea that the sunny weather they enjoy may be a harbinger of runaway climate change, that their beloved happy meal hamburgers are responsible for the release of dangerous methane gases and the unjust monopolization of vital water sources, and that the plastic refuse from their picnics might end up endangering the dolphins they idolize from afar — well, it's a lot to lay on a child who's still not old enough to see the latest Star Wars.

A civil war has erupted among progressive leaders over a proposal to impose a five - cent fee on plastic and paper bags.

If you trawl a fine mesh net through any of the globe's five subtropical gyres — giant ocean vortexes where currents converge and swirl unhurriedly — you will haul on deck a muddle of brown planktonic goop, the occasional fish, squid or Portuguese man - of - war — and, almost certainly, a generous sprinkling of colourful plastic particles, each no larger than your fingernail.

Fong eloquently outlines the history of such advances, reminding us how experiments by plastic surgeons on second world war burns victims effectively paved the way for the first full - face transplants earlier this century.

Endless characters from the «Star Wars» universe have turned into plastic toys with some from the original trilogy now worth thousands, but he didn't know there was a mini Hux on the shelves until he saw one in a shop window.

Plastic Wax will be hosting a live panel on Friday October 30 at 7:30 pm in the Wombat Theatre for an in - depth look at their work, entitled «From Gears of War to LEGO: Deconstructing Game Cinematics».

You have the chance to chase all of the usual post-sundown Tokyo pastimes: wailing bravely through a karaoke hit, trading war stories at the bar over an Old Fashioned or hammering the Sanwa plastic through a slew of classic Sega hits — Space Harrier, Outrun, Super Hang On or Fantasy Zone - at the downtown arcade.

Creating striking pieces such as «Hollow / stuffed, market law» is based on a plastic model of a World War II German Type XXI submarine, made from

The non-biodegradable plastic and the mushroom cloud bring the historical aspects of the installation to modern times; it's about the increasing toxicity of war and its continuing impact on our lives,» says de Vries.

McNeil speaks of why he became interested in art; his early influences; becoming interested in modern art after attending lectures by Vaclav Vytlacil; meeting Arshile Gorky; the leading figures in modern art during the 1930s; his interest in Cézanne; studying with Jan Matulka and Hans Hofmann; his experiences with the WPA; the modern artists within the WPA; the American Abstract Artists (A.A.A.); a group of painters oriented to Paris called The Ten; how there was an anti-surrealism attitude, and a surrealist would not have been permitted in A.A.A; what the A.A.A. constituted as abstract art; a grouping within the A.A.A. called the Concretionists; his memories of Léger; how he assesses the period of the 1930s; the importance of Cubism; what he thinks caused the decline of A.A.A.; how he assesses the period of the 1940s; his stance on form and the plastic values in art; his thoughts on various artists; the importance of The Club; the antipathy to the School of Paris after the war; how Impressionism was considered in the 40s and 50s; slides of his paintings from 1937 to 1962, and shows how he developed as an artist; the problems of abstract expressionism; organic and geometric form; the schisms in different art groups due to politics; his teaching techniques; why he feels modern painting declined after 1912; the quality of A.A.A. works; stretching his canvases, and the sizes he uses; his recent works, and his approaches to painting.

Station and Soveit War memorial Teptow Park East Berlin, acrylic paintings on plastic panels, by Peter Waite.

As of today eighteen restaurants in London's SoHo have signed on to a campaign dubbed Straw Wars aimed at reducing the use of plastic straws.

The restaurants» Straw Wars campaign aims to reduce waste by pushing back on the use of cheap plastic drinking straws.

-- UK chain plans to become world's first «plastic free» supermarket (Business Green)-- New Delhi bans non-biodegradable plastic bags entirely (Times of India)-- Tesco calls for a deposit on plastic bottles (Daily Mail)-- Movement under way to rid The Outer Banks of plastic straws (The Virginia Pilot)-- The EU declares war on single use plastics (The Guardian)

Now the war has come to Michigan, where the state government has passed a law that bans bans on bags, prohibiting local governments from banning, regulating or imposing fees on the use of plastic bags and other containers.

Surfrider also recognizes that the war on single - use plastic can't be solved through policy alone and consumer education and leadership from the business community is essential to systemic change.