Worldwide consumers use up to 1.5 trillion plastic bags every year. In the consumers possession the plastic bags stay with them for an average of fifteen minutes before they get thrown away or released to blow down into the wind‚ down our streets‚ and into our world. In Israel the average time of holding on to a single plastic bag is twenty minutes. The use of plastic bags tally’s up to $4 million per year for retailers. One company which buys half of the used plastic bags in the United States that are available
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Plastic is one of the most widely used products in the U.S. We use it to package consumer products‚ to charge our purchases with credit cards‚ to carry our food and drink‚ to build our toys and to even make our clothing! There are over 10‚000 different kinds of plastic in the world‚ and it is so versatile and can be mixed with so many other elements that its uses are limitless. But plastic takes up about 10% of our total waste stream‚ and it is composed mainly of the non-renewable resource petroleum
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Essay : Nowadays‚ the trend of surgery plastic gets increasing higher and higher. There has been widespread speculation have had plastic surgery. However‚ they did not realize serious effects that plastic surgery can cause yet. It can make you bankrupt‚ damage your health and intimidate society. Because of that‚ everybody must awake and fight for the beauty that is not gone under the knife. One of the most basic bad effects of plastic surgery is money problem. People who afford to change their
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Kendall Palmer Professor Abbott English 0099 31 October 2012 E-Waste Electronic waste is becoming one of the world’s largest issues. We continue to innovative and improve the products we use every day. When people upgrade their phones or any electronic device‚ they sometimes take them to an electronic waste recycling facility. When products are taken to the recycling centers‚ I often wonder where the old iPods and televisions end up. During the first part of researching there was some surprising
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Definition: Plastic money is a term that is used predominantly in reference to the hard plastic cards we use every day in place of actual bank notes. They can come in many different forms such as cash cards‚ credit cards‚ debit cards‚ pre-paid cash cards and store cards. Introduction: A slang phrase for credit cards‚ especially when such cards used to make purchases. The "plastic" portion of this term refers to the plastic construction of credit cards‚ as opposed to paper and metal of currency
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are taking their chances to look better‚ to feel better. According to the statistics that was made by American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery‚ there were made over 11 millions of cosmetic surgeries and procedures in 2007‚ while in 1997 the number was only 2 millions. This list will definitely continue to grow for more because people want to be attractive. Plastic surgery helps to shape or improve or restore areas of the body. Although the cost of cosmetic surgery is expensive‚ at right circumstances
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more biodegradable plastic bag using potatoes. b. To apply the value of patience and excellence while performing the project and; c. To find out if potato starch can be a potential replacement for petroleum based plastic. III. Procedures: 1. Wash‚ peel‚ and dice the potato. Then put it in the blender till it blends into an even paste. 2. Now strain with a tea strainer or coffee filter. You can use the starch right away or dry it. 3. To make the plastic you need to add 7
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What’s So Bad About Plastic Bags? Plastic bags are not biodegradable. They clog waterways‚ spoil the landscape‚ and end up in landfills where they may take 1‚000 years or more to break down into ever smaller particles that continue to pollute the soil and water. Plastic bags also pose a serious danger to birds and marine mammals that often mistake them for food. Thousands die each year after swallowing or choking on discarded plastic bags. Finally‚ producing plastic bags requires millions
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substances." As we become more technologically advanced‚ we produce materials that can withstand extreme temperatures‚ are durable and easy to use. Plastic bags‚ synthetics‚ plastic bottles‚ tin cans‚ and computer hardware- these are some of the things that make life easy for us. But what we forget is that these advanced products do not break down naturally. Plastic bags are difficult and costly to recycle and most end up on landfill sites where they take around 300 years to photo degrade. They break down
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Background The overuse of plastics in today’s society has become major environmental issue for our oceans. Plastic pollution is the dumping‚ littering‚ or disposing of any type of man-made plastic that has been produced and has ended up in our ocean and has not been recycled. History of Plastic "Plastic" entered the world through chemistry in 1909 and was originally coined to describe Bakelite‚ the first fully synthetic resin. What make’s plastic so unique is when it is heated it can be molded
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