were cardboard or paper (28% total), food waste (14%), yard waste (14%), plastics (12%), metals (9%), rubber, leather, and textiles (8%), wood (7%), glass (5%), misc. (3%). 10. (414) Stuff we throw away: -enough tires to circle planet 3X -enough diapers ea. Yr. to reach the moon and back 7X -enough carpet to cover state of Delaware. -2.5 mill. (non-returnable plastics) reach the earth to moon 6X -274 mill. Plastic bags (3,200) per second. -enough paper to build a wall 3.5 meters high from
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to paper bags because they don’t decompose. They also require high ultraviolet light to dissolve the plastic bags. Plastic bags contribute to the pollution of the United States coastline. They will continue to harm our environment unless we put a stop to it. Plastic bags don’t biodegrade, but are at a risk for photo degradation, light exposure dissolving them into toxic polymers particles, which harm out environment. Plastic bags require high ultraviolet light to dissolve the plastic bags. Requiring
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cheaper and customers will see this as greater value, compared to other retailers who charge 20p or more, these bags for life are re-usable and retailers should replace it free of charge. However, local shoppers disagree with the levy because they think it is just another way to get money off the public, others feel big families will be hit the most, as the charge is for single-use carrier bags and can turn out quite expensive by the end of the month (Carrick Times, 2013). Furthermore, a Mintel report
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Thursday – 3 plastic water bottles, two glass bottles Friday – 4 coke cans, one newspaper, and one plastic bottle Saturday – 2 glass bottles, one old plastic container, and one plastic water bottle Sunday – 1 coffee can, one newspaper, and one cereal box Monday – 1 box of crackers, one orange juice carton Tuesday – 1 jug of milk, two sprite cans, one bottle of water Wednesday – 2 cardboard boxes, one empty can of oil sheen, and one empty can of spray paint Week totals: Plastics – 1 bag Glass bottles
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create a capsule that can decrease the speed of an egg when dropped, decrease the acceleration and increase the impact time in order to save the egg from breaking. Materials/Equipment: • 4 balloons • 1 metre of string • 2 polystyrene cups • 1 plastic bag • 2 pieces of paper • Sticky tape • Scissors • Pencil • And of course the egg Method (Original design): 1. Firstly, two balloons were blown to a desired size and tied. 2. Then, a polystyrene cup was placed upside down, and another polystyrene cup
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which come from plants or animals. Organic chemists develop drug, petrochemicals, fertilizers, and plastics. They will make approximately $68,000 http://chemistry.about.com/od/educationemployment/a/chemistprofile.htm 5. Are there any environmental concerns we should be worried about here in Long Beach? Yes we need to ensure that we have maximum safety when it comes to paper bag and plastic bag distribution. http://www.longbeach.gov/news/displaynews.asp?NewsID=4997 6. What is eutrophication
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then a piece of the flooring should be cut out to go with the sample to the lab. The sample should be placed into a paper bag and labeled. Blood stains on articles of clothing should be taken in for evidence in their entirety. The article of clothing should be placed in a paper bag and the proper labels should be attached. The paper should be either a brown paper bag or a box that is sealed and labeled. (Crime Scene Investigator, 2014), The investigator should not attempt to remove a stain
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compound known as celluloid that would change modern history. This is the first known plastic compound to demonstrate the ability to mold when heated and maintain its shape once cooled. While the chemical compounds have evolved over the years, so have its uses and our dependency on them. If we look around our room today, we can see that nearly every product in our house either consists or was built by some form of plastic. This dependence raises some alarming questions. What are the ramifications of our
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up after them. Be that as it may, not only do we have a new plastic continent in the Pacific Ocean, made up of plastic trash, but some of the streets in Chinese cities are so littlered with plastic bags, that one cannot see the sidewalks. Animals in Alaska are beign strangled by plastic trash discarded 10,000 miles away. A few American cities have begun to charge for plastic bags at the grocery and other cities have outlawed these bags altogether. A reduction in trash and an assocaited increase
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be extracted from the cell by going into the nucleus of the cell where the DNA is located and extract several chromosomes. Materials plastic bag Strawberries (fresh or frozen) dish detergent Rubbing alcohol cup of water coffee filter and plastic cup wooden popsicle stick or toothpick Procedures 1. Placed the strawberry into the plastic bag, sealed it and gently
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We pay close attention to the measurements of the baking soda and vinegar before and after each trail. Objective: The objective of this experiment was to prove the conservation of mass. Materials: Goggles Apron Vinegar Baking Soda Ziplock Bag Graduated Cylinder Styrofoam Cups Balance Scoopula Procedure: Trial 1: 1. Put on goggles and apron and keep them on until conclusion of experiment. 2. Measure approximately 20 mL of vinegar using the graduated cylinder. Pour the vinegar into
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about Ad- Liner Packaging Inc, Brazil’s largest manufacturer of plastic bags and packaging, and their decision of launching of new drawstring trash bags named Climp Fecha Facil. With the investment of one million dollars already done to purchase new machines for production of the new trash bags the stake seem to be high. Market analysis regarding perceived acceptance, packaging preferences and the perceived feature for the new trash bag are done with three focus group in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro
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living e.g CO, CO2, CH4 SiCL4 = silicon tetrachloride Compounds that only consist of carbon and hydrogen Naming hydrocarbons Alkane CnH2n – 2 Propane & butane gas in BBQ, gas cylinders, cigarette lighters Alkene CnH2n Plastics & plastic bags Alkyne CnH2n + 2 Blow torches used in welding (3000 degrees Celsius) Fractional distillation * Crude oil= hydrocarbons & other substances * Crude oil & natural gases = formed from remains of animals hundreds of
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sudden deceleration, sending a signal to the airbag module kit, which then ignites a propellant, usually sodium azide (NaN3). The reaction occurs at a temperature high enough to allow sodium azide to decompose, forming nitrogen. The nitrogen causes the bag to inflate in thirty milliseconds. Impact with the driver or passenger then causes the gas molecules to escape through vents, and the pressure inside the airbag reaches atmospheric pressure within two seconds. Often a second reaction occurs, as pure
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abandoned plastic fishing nets is one of the greatest dangers from marine debris”, says Bamford, and (Bamford, Holly 2009). The nets entangle seals, sea turtles and other animals and can often result in drowning them. Because fishermen are now using plastic for its low cost, abandon nets can continue fishing on their own for months or even years. This can cause harm to any animal but sea turtles seem especially susceptible. Not only are they entangled by fishing nets, they often swallow plastic bags, mistaking
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be recycled. For this lab we had to carry around a trash bag to help show just how much we actualy throw away in a week. One of the main after effects of the lab could help leave a lasting impression and even help you reduce he amount of the trash you throw away. While also remebering to throw away our solid waste we had to remeber to put it on the tally sheet, the tally sheet was orgaized onto different catagories of solid waste; plastic, paper, paperboard/cardboard, aluminum, glass, mixed metals
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keep plastic sheeting in your car. For those like myself, who are not able to drive, I personally always keep a few plastic grocery bags in every handbag I use on a regular basis , and also my workbag. You simply never know when you'll find something dead, and thus you will always have a bag or two handy. Disposable gloves may be needed in the case of larger animals. To pick up a small-ish body - It's exactly like scooping a dogshit. Put your hand in the grocery bag ( turn the bag inside
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And many other life-threatening consequences. So, what's happening right now? Global warming has caused a 1 degree Celsius increase in average global temperature since 1880. This does not seem like a very high increase considering the time period however, due to the increase in the percentage of greenhouse gases because of industrialization and pollution, scientists expect the average global temperature to go up about 1.4 – 5.8 degrees Celsius by 2100, and the sea level to rise 15 – 95 centimeters
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The Ever-Growing Trash of Shoprite According to “The Hidden Life of Garbage,” Heather Rogers states, “Today’s garbage graveyards are sequestered, guarded, and veiled.(178)”Rogers claims that the Waste Management Inc. operates its Geological Reclamation Operations and Waste systems (GROW) landfill on a historical river valley in Pennsylvania in which Washington had crossed the Delaware river. At the landfill site, Rogers’ states, “the logic of our society’s unrestrained consuming and wasting quickly
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cycle times made TPCs very attractive to blade manufacturers as they struggled to keep up with an all-time high demand. For the design of a wind turbine blade the material would most certainly have to be a thermosetting plastic, especially 30 metres in length. A thermosetting plastic, known by many as a thermoset is also a polymer. Materials like this are sometimes solid but generally liquid. Once hardened, the thermoset resin cannot be reheated and melted back to a solid. Thermoplastics are generally
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consumers to buy their different appliances as Aldi is a supermarket that is cheap for the families/consumers. Paragraph Two- Aldi has a different checkout than Coles. Coles uses a different checkout and runs it differently than Aldi does. Coles uses plastics where Aldi
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are not easy to dispose of. According to the Mother Nature Network, 60% of the trash that we throw away can actually be recycled, but only about 13% is (Moss, 2011). Of this massive amount of garbage, about 30 million tons of that is some form of plastic (Science Channel, 2011). What happens to all those unused or discarded products? Unfortunately they do not vanish into thin air: The First Law of Thermodynamics (or the Law of Conservation of Matter) states that matter/energy cannot be created
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keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent. - Irving Berlin Demographic factors 2. Cash registers replaced with Ipad’s Technological Factors 3. Convenient stores and plastic bag ban Environmental Factors 4. People Afraid Of Discrimination Political Factors 5. Quebec’s Couche-Tard Cultural Factors http://www.ingramcontent.com/Photos/CHRISTIA N%20COVER%20-%20WINTER%202013.jpg HR COMMUNICATIONS 345
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laboratory manual. For the first part of the experiment, a plastic dialysis bag was filled with a teaspoon of cornstarch and 20 mL of distilled water was prepared along with a 200 mL beaker containing 150 mL water. Fifteen drops of potassium iodide was added to the beaker and the plastic bag was submerged into the potassium iodide solution. Notes were taken over the course of the rest of the lab to record any changes in the solution/dialysis bag. The second part of this lab experiment was followed
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Define ‘green marketing’ differentiating it from conventional marketing, then illustrate the key ingredients to successful green marketing in relation to a product, a service or an industry you know or have researched. Conventional or traditional marketing is a process of pushing products to the consumer, whereby organizations advertises their goods or services to the targeted market through media (Rex and Baumann, 2006). Such as radio, news papers, magazines, billboards, television ads, brochures
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Weather Radio with tone alert and extra batteries for both * Flashlight and extra batteries * First aid kit * Whistle to signal for help * Dust mask, to help filter contaminated air and plastic sheeting and duct tape to shelter-in-place * Moist towelettes, garbage bags and plastic ties for personal sanitation * Wrench or pliers to turn off utilities * Can opener for food (if kit contains canned food) * Local maps * Cell phone with chargers -------------------------------------------------
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arsenic(CCA) Formaldehyde Polyvinylchloride for cable(PVC) Substances which are not allow to be used in the production IKEA Say NO to plastic bags Blue bag program - Launched to reduce the amount of bag consumption in IKEA stores which resulted in 95% cut down - Designed to charge customers a nickel per plastic bag and 59 cents for every reusable big blue bag in order to encourage people to love the global Cut Energy Consumption CFL light bulbs - More environmental friendly - Last ten times
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dishwashing detergent cheesecloth Re-closable plastic sandwich bags test tube (or small glass jar) 3 strawberries (green tops removed) cup bamboo kabob skewer or Q-tip Directions: 1. Mix the salt, water, and Dawn detergent in a glass or small bowl. Set the mixture aside. This is your extraction liquid. 2. Line the funnel with the cheesecloth, and put the funnel’s tube into the glass. 3. Put the strawberries in the plastic bag and push out all the extra air. Seal it tightly.
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Materials Zip lock sandwich bag 1 ripe strawberry Lysis buffer Coffee filter Erlenmeyer flask Graduated cylinder Small funnel Glass slide Ethyl or isopropyl alcohol Ice water bath Test tube Plastic stirrer Scissors Safety goggles Procedure 1. Obtain 1 fresh strawberry. Remove any of the leaves if they are attached. 2. Place the strawberry in the zip lock bag. Squeeze all the air out and seal the bag tight. 3. Gently mash the strawberry in the bag with your fingers for at least
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candy corn bag! (Find printable directions here). SUPPLIES & TOOLS: Brown paper grocery bag Scissors Duck brand duct tape, white, yellow, orange DIRECTIONS: Open your brown paper bag and cut down 1 vertical seam. Cut bottom off bag. Lay bag horizontally. Use a 4" piece of duct tape to seal edge on 1 of the short sides of rectangle. Trim extra tape. Covering bag completely with duct tape will make it stronger. Roll bag into one shape, duct tape side out. Roll cone tightly for smaller bag; for larger
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