Sentences with phrase «with less plastic»

How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too Join me in living life with less plastic.

How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too Join me in living life with less plastic.

You might start with your biggest items of trash and see how you can substitute them for something with less plastic or less packaging.

The Ocean Friendly Restaurants program is showing that the power of community, the love of our ocean and coasts, and forward - thinking business practices are essential ingredients that can move us towards a future with less plastic in our ocean.

After three years of solid campaigning, we are finally on our way to a world with less plastic.

As a follow - up to last week's post on how to live with less plastic, here are some additional tips.

How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too Join me in living life with less plastic.

I could certainly do with less plastic straws in my life.

For convenience, I bought the new eco-shape Poland Spring bottles that are made with less plastic than their other bottles.

Not exact matches

We could care less about the VMA's or the artists who get showcased there, because to most of us, music is produced by a plastic box with speaker holes or a headphone jack, not an artist.

Further, Nestlé commits to improving recycling schemes, exploring packaging solutions that use less plastic, labelling its plastic packaging with recycling instructions, and increasing recycled plastics content in its packaging.

Plastic wrap is airtight and sticks less (or, can be more easily pulled away than something with fibers if it sticks).

The FlatSkin ® packaging system combines an attractive product presentation with extended shelf life and a particularly sustainable use of packaging materials (up to 75 % less plastic).

Transfer the dough to a lightly oiled bowl or proofing bucket, and cover with an oiled piece of plastic wrap (or the oiled top to your proofing bucket) and set it in a warm, draft - free location to rise for about 45 minutes or until it is about 150 % of its original size (if using pastry flour, the dough will rise less).

Cover with a plastic wrap and place in a warm place (not hot or you might kill the yeast) and let it rise until doubled in size, about 1 hour or less

«People are moving away from glass and plastic and moving to products with less of a carbon footprint,» he says.

In mixed plastics recycle streams such as this, using Fusabond ® improves impact resistance, surface finish, and processability of parts and films... so the recycled material can be made into more sustainable articles with less material loss and higher end - use value.

«Over the past decade the industry has made significant progress with lightweighting, which is about using less plastic to make the bottle,» Parker says.

When compared to standard aluminium pouches, Ecolean says its packaging is 15 % to 20 % lighter, with 30 % less plastic.

Place between 2 sheets of plastic wrap and, with flat side of a meat pounder, pound turkey to slightly less than 1/4 inch thick.

In contrast, companies producing rigid plastic containers are less vulnerable because they generallyoperate under contractual arrangements with most customers.

Also, when compared to the production of the rigid gallon jug, the YES Pack is made with: 50 percent less energy, 60 percent less plastic, and 70 percent fewer CO2 emissions from transportation.

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.

When I was pregnant with Briar, I was certain (OMG, so certain) that my home would never be overrun with toys, much less with — gasp — cheap plastic toys!

If your baby takes the bottles with the plastic drop - in — you'll have even less sterilizing to worry about.

This shapely stack of plastic pails offers useful storage space with a modern - looking geometric appeal, and all for less than $ 15!

A word on the packaging, which was one of my issues with our initial HelloFresh review — there seems to be less plastic and more paper (all the ingredients arrive in separate paper bags) and you can even download a packaging label to send the boxes and felt insulation back.

Plus, the pouches take up much less space than traditional glass or plastic jars, making it easy to store in a cupboard or slip in your diaper bag when traveling.Today, Celebrity Baby Trends is teaming up with AMARA to give one lucky winner a 2 - month supply of baby food (2 mastercases with 42 pouches in each)!

You should also make sure that the plastic is fitted with some sort of cushioned of comfort padding so that there is less chance of them bumping their heads on hard plastic while splashing around.

They cry much less and they grow to become happier, more intelligent, more independent, more loving and more social than babies who spend much of their infancy in infant seats, swings, cribs, and all the other plastic baby - holding gadgets that don't provide babies with human contact.

The Dock is nice and soft so if I bump into it during the night, it's no big deal (unlike the less expensive co-sleepers with hard plastic and metal).

My first reaction was to wonder if she thought my, small for their age, children were younger than they were, or if she thought the cheap plastic sled (with a rope to drag it no less) was heavier than it really was.

Made from wood pulp fluff sourced from family - owned, sustainably managed forests and with significantly less material than traditional plastic diapers, 365 Everyday Value ™ Baby Diapers are responsibly produced and reduce the amount of waste that ends up in our landfills.

«He's troubled by the fee, he agrees with the goal that we all do that we'd like to see less of these plastic bags.

In yet another reminder of the mayor's lesser reputation in the eyes of the Senate — where Long Island and upstate Republicans hold sway, and have been offended by efforts to oust them — New York City was forced to delay enacting a five - cent fee on plastic bags, a setback for the mayor and the City Council on a seemingly local concern but one with national political appeal.

With plastic, less may be more, and a little may be a lot.

The cylinders contain sheets of plastic membranes wrapped around a central pipe, and the membranes are stippled with pores less than a hundredth the diameter of a human hair.

In the meantime, IKEA, the Swedish home furnishings company, as well as Apple, IBM, and Motorola, have already switched to foams and plastics treated with less - hazardous flame retardants.

Beverage companies are making their bottles with a lot less plastic.

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).

The study, publishing online January 18 in the American Journal of Epidemiology, found elderly women with less than 40 minutes of moderate - to - vigorous physical activity per day and who remain sedentary for more than 10 hours per day have shorter telomeres — tiny caps found on the ends of DNA strands, like the plastic tips of shoelaces, that protect chromosomes from deterioration and progressively shorten with age.

And finally, don't eat it out of that crummy plastic container — you're less likely to be satisfied than if you serve it up on a plate with vegies and salad.

Instead, it's recommended that you mix Rx pills with something like dirt, cat litter, or coffee grounds to make them less appealing to someone to dig out of the garbage, then seal that undesirable mixture in a plastic bag or container and throw the whole shebang away.

Phthalates used in plastic have even been linked to low libido in women, with a recent study even suggesting women with high levels of plasticizers were twice as likely to show less interest in sex than those with low levels.

Car exhaust, secondhand smoke, flame retardants, plastic packaging, heavy metals, pesticides, exogenous hormones in conventional meat and dairy, BPA - coated receipts... Unless you're living in a virgin forest, you're going to come into contact with some less - than - optimal chemicals pretty much every day.

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.

Bottled water, which is often tainted with chemicals, is becoming a less popular option due to the waste generated by the plastic containers.

Either that, or pretend this review wasn't written by me, but by some evil twin / clone (complete with evil facial hair) who exists only to make my opinion worth less than my Underworld collectors edition plastic jumbo Pepsi cup in 20 years time.

Standouts from the trailer include Eva Green in a red sequin disco gown, Michelle Pfeiffer in purple and green Bill Gibb crossed with Laura Ashley, and only slightly less wacky than usual Helena Bonham Carter wearing a diamond pattern dress, matching scarf and giant plastic Polaroid sunglasses.

Housed in a regular plastic Amaray case with a sapphic, screen - captured cover that certainly (if less than crisply) sells the salacious nature of the material, In the Sign of the Taurus comes to DVD on a region - free disc in 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, with a native language Dolby digital soundtrack, removable English subtitles, and an animated top menu screen with additionally animated dozen chapter selections.