Plastic is extremely bad for the environment. It is one of man’s worst inventions. Plastic is non-biodegradable. This means that waste plastic cannot be turned into any other substance that is eco friendly. Although tonnes and tonnes of plastic are burned in the most advanced incinerators‚ all that remains in plastic. It doesn’t change into anything else‚ as many other materials do. Hence plastic waste is dangerous to the environment. Plastic carry bags reach the drainage system and this causes
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Plastic surgery is one of the medical specialty concerned with the "correction" or restoration of form and function. Though cosmetic or aesthetic surgery is the best-known kind of plastic surgery‚ most plastic surgery is not cosmetic;[2] plastic surgery includes many types of reconstructive surgery‚ hand surgery‚ microsurgery‚ and the treatment of burns. Treatments for the plastic repair of a broken nose are first mentioned in the Edwin Smith Papyrus‚[6] a transcription of an Ancient Egyptian
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Millions of plastic bags are given out to consumers by supermarkets and stores to carry their goods in. They are also cheap‚ light‚ durable‚ easy to carry and in many cases‚ free. The most commonly used shopping bag is made of High Density Polyethylene (HDPE). This type is used in the majority of supermarkets and stores. After these bags are used‚ they often end up in landfills or as litter‚ roughly only three percent of plastic bags is actually recycled per year (Planet Ark‚ 2011). The materials
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teen books is the ’myth’ of book banning. Some may think that only old books were banned‚ and that they are now back on the shelves of schools and libraries around the country. This is not so. Not only have old classics such as The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger been banned‚ but newer books are being challenged as well. The controversy of book banning stems from the pursuit of knowledge. Though Hitler did many bad things in his lifetime schools still teach about the Holocaust‚ and yet now parents
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The earliest known reports of plastic surgery date back to 600 BC when a Hindu surgeon reassembled a nose using materials from a cheek. Soon after‚ plastic surgery became common through ritual practices of cutting off enemies’ noses and lips. According to The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery‚ Americans spent more than twelve billion dollars on surgical and nonsurgical procedures in 2014. With plastic surgery trending‚ society debates whether it is a victory for the science community
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PRESSURE GAUGE BENCH CALIBRATOR A Project Development Proposal Presented to The Faculty of College of Industrial Technology BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Main Campus II‚ Alangilan‚ Batangas City In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree BACHELOR OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY Instrumentation and Control Technology By Bernabe‚ John Erickson B. Catibog‚ Oliver B. Macalalad‚ Ramil A. CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM Introduction Industrial Automation is
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source but in general the average length is between 500 and 2 000 glucose units. There are two major molecules in starch - amylose and amylopectin. The alpha linkage of amylose starch allows it to be flexible and digestible. Starch-based biodegradable plastics may have starch contents ranging from 10% to greater than 90%. Starch based polymers can be based on crops such as corn (maize)‚ wheat or potatoes. Starch content needs to exceed 60% before significant material breakdown occurs. As the starch
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Banning Smoking in Public Places Post University Millions of nonsmokers all across the globe are in danger of serious health risks because of smoking‚ banning smoking in public places is the only rational way to avoid such risk. Smoking is the number one leading cause of preventable death. This killer is responsible for painfully taking the life of just under a half million people a year according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC.gov; 2014) People that choose not to smoke have
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Brunswick Plastics This case deals with cost analysis for pricing new business in a small injection moldingjob shop in "the Maritimes" in 1986‚ a good business year. In Septe mber of 1986 Michael Smith‚ Division Manager of Brunswick Pla stics‚ faced an important pricing decision on a majo r new b id opportunity . Michael knew that pric ing too high m eant losing a bid that wo ul d em ploy currently unused capacity. On th e other hand‚ pricing too low meant l osses on the j ob. In the first two months
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“Welcome to the world of the plastic beach”. This is the title of a song on the Gorillaz Album Plastic beach. But for The community of Gorillaz and the band it is much more. The plastic beach is a fictional location that the band came up with to be a harbor that they could live on. It is an island in the middle of the pacific ocean that is made up entirely of plastic bottles and waste. The characters of Gorillaz discovered this mountain of garbage when they were escaping the clutches of bruce willis
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