First, it would be capped with a plastic liner covered with dirt.
"Want bubbles?" She showed Malcolm the nearly empty bottle capped with a plastic elephant head.
As a kid who read a lot of science fiction, I'm not sure what I thought American health care would be by the time I became an adult, but I certainly didn't expect it to involve shelves of Extreme Doritos, buckets of off-brand Cheez Doodles, bottles of Hennessey capped with black-plastic theft hats, and wire bins of hot-pink Koosh balls.
The shoes, displayed on pedestals, include Vivienne Westwood open-toe sling-backs capped with a big plastic heart at the toe and, from Melissa's newest collaborators, black and white gladiator sandals by Gareth Pugh and ballet flats by Jason Wu, with his signature lace printed inside.
Eventually, the parcel would be capped with high-density plastic to prevent garbage-spawned gases from leaking into the air.
Mice were placed facing upwards at the top of a vertical pole (50 cm in length, 1 cm in diameter) that had been covered with surgical tape to provide a rough surface and capped with a flat plastic disc to prevent the mouse from traversing the top of the pole.
In 1996, the 225-foot mound of garbage was capped with a thick layer of plastic and two feet of soil.
While other municipalities were capping landfills with plastic covers, Riverhead became the first town in the state to choose the more expensive option of clearing a dump because officials believed it would more reliably eliminate any threat to the groundwater.
The piles were "capped" with a layer of clay and plastic to keep water out, and covered with a few inches of soil.
They wore bathing caps with plastic flowers and swim suits with pointy foam bra cups.
