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Plastic

A slang term for a credit card, especially when being used to make frivolous or luxurious purchases.
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Many organisms have ingested these fragments of plastic, and that includes humans.
Plastics Found In Human Poop!
One proposal was to increase the fee collected for the plastic bags from 20 sen to 40 sen or even 50 sen each, he said.
Penang weighs raising plastic bag fees
Environmentalists decry landfill plastic, but modern landfills are designed to accept waste with a minimum of environmental impact.
Lifestyle changes aren't answer on plastics
Because of the decline, recycling related requirements on some companies' bottle and container packaging could come into play unless the state is able to increase the plastic recycling rate to more than 25 percent by next year.
Oregon sees drop in plastic container recycling levels
They must remove any plastic containing brominated flame retardants and treat it separately.
Plastics, electronics & the environment: how new global regulations affect materials choices
But does this mean that there could actually be a return to plastic skins on cars?
Plastics: the return of body panels? A problem with plastics and steel structures is a difference in the coefficient of expansion. Some material modifications may ameliorate that problem
The Weekly Standard argued that there is plenty of sand, trees, petroleum and farm products to produce new glass, paper and plastic, so recycling is a waste of time that robs Seattle households of 16 minutes per week on sorting cast-offs.
How to recycle practically anything
However, some engineers have created components that operate at high frequencies, such as the plastic diode reported last year by researchers in Belgium (SN: 8/13/05,p.
Beyond bar codes: tuning up plastic radio labels
Plastic beverage bottles sold in the United States are made from a type of plastic known as polyethylene terephthalate (PET).
Phthalates not in plastic food packaging
There are other problems with plastic. When certain plastics deteriorate, they release chemicals that may act as endocrine disruptors and interfere with normal hormone functioning in animals and humans.
Hello green shopper: good-bye waste problem
They also recognized that screws with excessive compression ratios had their own problems, such as bailing-up at the feed throat of a strip-fed rubber extruder, or pushing unmelted pellets through a pelletized plastic extruder.
Computer modeling of wire and cable extrusion
Julie is one of thousands of teens opting for plastic surgery.
About face: more and more teen girls are willing to do almost anything to look good, including going under the knife. But with all the possible dangers involved, both physical and emotional, is plastic surgery really such a smart move?

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