be made from recycled plastic bottles or containers. In fact‚ the bottle you recycle in your own town can end up being spun into a pair of mittens worn by a child who lives in Japan. The plastic containers you recycle can take quite a journey once they leave your house. Of course‚ they can also wind up being put to the same use as before. We’re going to explore some unique paths you may not know about. Plastic recycling began in communities in the early 1980s with bottle-deposit programs. Buyers
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Plastics have been around for a long time now. It has been said that even before Alexander Parke’s major pioneering contribution to the development of plastics from cellulose nitrate in the 1850’s‚ plastic like materials have been in use by mankind for centuries. Now life without plastic cannot even be imagined. Almost every piece we use day to day is either a plastic or has plastic components in it. Because plastics can be made into products of different strengths and flexibility we can find plastic
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Design Report: Design Option – Plastic Bottle Bricks The design area chosen by my team is Waste Management. Our aim is to reduce the dumping of Codo’s waste in the environment and provide and alternative purpose for those materials. The plastic bottle brick is an option that combines plastic bottles‚ bags‚ packages‚ and many other types of dry waste to create a brick much stronger than the traditional one. A huge initiative to use this brick can be seen at the Eco-Tec’s Ecoparque
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Topic: Plastic water bottles General Purpose: To Persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience to stop using plastic bottles because of the health concerns and its harmful effects on the environment. Introduction: How many people know that in the Pacific Ocean there’s a huge island consisting of plastic bags‚ bottles‚ and even toys that’s estimated to be twice the size of Texas? For those you didn’t know now you do‚ environmentalists refer to this island as the Great Plastic Vortex. As
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Recovery of Plastic Bottles for Recycling: A Study of Responsible Environmental Behaviour at the University of the West Indies‚ Mona Campus‚ Kingston‚ Jamaica" Background (Recycling versus dumping) • • • • • Recycling is expensive and can be very expensive Dumping is cheap Recycling requires courage and motivation Dumping is natural Recycling requires forward investment‚ make governmental authorities‚ polluters from private and public enterprises upset • Dumping require no
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substances originating from living organisms‚ or artificial materials that are similar enough to plant and animal matter to be put to use by microorganisms ------------------------------------------------- ONE OPTION: BIODEGRADABLE Plastics Biodegradable plastic is plastic that has been treated to be easily broken down by microorganisms and return to nature. Many technologies exist today that allow for such treatment. Currently there are some synthetic polymers that can be broken down by microorganisms
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Nallely Krutina March 5‚ 2013 Mr. Monroe-2 Persuasive Essay Plastic Water Bottles Vs. Reusable Water Bottles Water‚ a very important factor in our daily lives‚ is used for multiple reasons such as taking a shower to drinking it. Water is essential for our bodies because it helps us with our digestion‚ temperature control‚ and structure. We have become dependable on bottled water‚ whether it is plastic or reusable. Today in society we have been tricked by manufacturing companies that all
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plastic-def. A plastic material is any of a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic organic solids that are moldable. Plastics are typically organic polymers of high molecular mass‚ but they often contain other substances. They are usually synthetic‚ most commonly derived from petrochemicals‚ but many are partially natural. Plastics Characteristics Plastics are made from fossil fuels--petroleum‚ natural gas‚ coal--‚ wood and some plant materials‚ air‚ water and sometimes other common materials
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CMNS 112 Distribution of Drinking Water: Alternatives to Traditional Plastic Water Bottles Bottled water is readily available just about anywhere you go for a low price and a high level of convenience. Recently‚ bottled water has been put under a microscope as an industry which is unnecessarily wasteful and inefficient when clean tap water is available in many first world countries. Many different solutions
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OCEAN PLASTICS POLLUTION: A GLOBAL TRAGEDY FOR OUR OCEANS AND SEA LIFE Plastic never goes away. And it’s increasingly finding its way into our oceans and onto our beaches. In the Los Angeles area alone‚ 10 metric tons of plastic fragments — like grocery bags‚ straws and soda bottles — are carried into the Pacific Ocean every day. Today billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences making up about 40 percent of the world’s ocean surfaces. Plastics pollution has a direct and
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