Plastic

Verifone, the company that makes the store’s card reader would not confirm or deny that the plastic bag trick worked.

Some, like Mr.Azar’s plastic bag, are open to argument as to how they work, or whether they really work at all.

He wrapped one layer of the plastic around the card and tried again.

Azar reached beneath the counter for a black plastic bag.

Everything about the look and feel of a wallet—the way the fastenings and materials wear and tear and loosen with age, the plastic and paper and gold and silver, and handwritten phone numbers and printed cinema tickets—is the very opposite of what our world is becoming.

Everything about the look and feel of a wallet—the way the fastenings and materials wear and tear and loosen with age, the plastic and paper and gold and silver, and handwritten phone numbers and printed cinema tickets—is the very opposite of what our wor

Regardless, the World Health Organisation has launched a review into the potential health risks of drinking water from plastic bottles.

That’s the conclusion of a recently released study, which analysed 259 bottles from 11 brands sold in nine countries, revealing an average of 325 plastic particles per litre of water.

That's the vision of a hotel chain that plans to send digital keys to guests' phones via an app instead of making them check in and get the traditional plastic swipe cards.

When travelling overseas, do you buy water in plastic bottles or take your chances with tap water?

The birds can easily eat pieces of plastic or rubber hands and they can die, said Flack.

Much of the waste is discarded rotten meat, mixed in with other human debris such as plastic bags and old toys.

In Aisle 34 is precut plastic flooring, the glue already in place.

"The birds can easily eat pieces of plastic or rubber hands and they can die, " said Flack.

Americans use more than 100 billion thin film plastic bags every year.

And while plastic bags may be ugly to look at, they represent a small percentage of all garbage on the ground today.

Bertocchini agrees and hopes her team's findings might one day help employ the enzyme to break down plastics in landfills.

But she expects using the chemical in some kind of industrial process-not simply "millions of worms thrown on top of the plastic".

Companies produce thousands of different kinds of disposable products: paper plates, plastic cups, and cameras, to name a few.

Cover the hole with the plastic sheet.

Eyeing these headwinds, plastic-bag makers are hiring scientists like stein to make the case that their products are not as bad for the planet as most people assume.

Humans produce more than 300 million tons of plastic every year.

It was kept in a plastic bag with a seal.

Next, cover the hole with the plastic sheet, securing the edges of the plastic with dirt and weighting the sheet's center down with a rock.

One study found that a cotton bag must be used at least 131 times to be better for the planet than plastic.

Peter examined the box and, sure enough, it was completely covered in factory-sealed plastic.

Recycling plastics and aluminum, for instance, uses only 5% to 10% as much energy as producing new plastic or smelting aluminum.

Remove the skin and place them in plastic bags or containers and freeze.

Researchers in spain and england recently found that the worms of the greater wax moth can break down polyethylene, which accounts for 40% of plastics.

Scientists have obtained more evidence that plastic is finding its way into the human body.

The plastic should now form a cone with 45-degree-angled sides.

The researchers say that the keyboard should be pretty straightforward to commercialize and is mostly made of inexpensive, plastic-like parts.

The solar still works by creating a greenhouse under the plastic.

The stronger a reusable bag is, the longer its life and the more plastic-bag use it cancels out.

They are less strong than plastic bags.

They can also be made of plastic, animal bone or metal.

They take plastics as their everyday food.

To confirm that the worms' chewing alone was not responsible for the polyethylene breakdown, the researchers made some worms into paste and applied it to plastic films.

Two things changed my life: my mother and a white plastic bike basket.

India has just announced it will "eliminate all single-use plastic in the country by 2022". There are also incentive-based ways of making better environmental choices easier, such as ensuring recycling is at least as easy as trash disposal.

One their own, taking our own bags to the grocery store or quitting plastic straws, for example, will accomplish little and require very little of us.

sixty toddlers were each introduced to an adult tester holding a plastic container.

The robot was the same size as a regular rat but resembled a simple plastic box on wheels.

They're part of a bunch of celebrities starring in a new video for World Environment Day—encouraging you, the consumer, to swap out your single-use plastic staples like straws and cutlery to combat the plastics crisis.

This might mean implementing policy such as a plastic tax that adds a cost to environmentally problematic action, or banning single-use plastics altogether.