But as glass bottles, rubber nipples and formulas became available -- and as more women began working outside the home -- breast-feeding rates hit a record low.
And they certainly proliferate elsewhere, found over the last decade in modelling clay, vinyl flooring, nail polish, household cleaners, pencil cases, squeezable plastic bottles, rubber clogs, raincoats, blood transfusion bags, indoor air and dust and, in the case of the phthalate DEHP in particular, the packaging of food.
Far from being natural wonders, the artworks are made of plastic bottles, rubber tubing, ropes, cans, foam and myriad other remnants of debris.
The segments were immediately placed in 50-mL plastic gas-tight bottles with rubber stoppers (three bottles containing three leaf segments each, per treatment).
Some were scattered across the tracks, among an iced tea bottle, a rubber ball and a soda cup that appeared too big for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's New York.
Twice a year, for two to four weeks in the spring and fall, those holes in my head fill up with gunk and it makes my face and forehead feel like a huge, throbbing, aching, seriously clogged bottle of rubber cement.
You got yourself a homemade mop that's refillable.(Taping it is not really necessary for the newer kiwi bottles with the plastic nib ring.older bottles used rubber nib rings and without tape they leak everywhere).
Fashioning gas masks from old soda bottles, foam rubber and vinegar-soaked rags, students prepared for the night.
The materials, including syringes, bottles and rubber tubes, were found outside a hotel used by athletes during the European track and field championships, which ended Sunday in Goteborg.
What I found on the beach in Periyamudaliarchavadi was a sight that has become all too familiar around here over the years: fallen trees, concrete debris, churning waters perilously close to people's homes, and bits of human lives — combs and bottles and rubber sandals and pieces of furniture — strewn across a narrow strip of remaining sand.
