"If you ask me, as a plastic pollution activist, if I would prefer a milk jug in a lake or the equivalent amount of plastic in a milk jug in [plastic] dust in a lake, I would say milk jug every time," says Stiv Wilson, associate director of 5 Gyres.
Procedural control pouches contained an equivalent mass of plastic mesh but no macroalgae.
He said his home, in Gardiner, N.Y., had been outfitted with a hydroelectric plant that saved the energy equivalent of 200 plastic bags a day.
Every kilometer of this kind of road uses the equivalent of 1m plastic bags, saving around one tonne of asphalt and costing roughly 8% less than a conventional road.
Even though Rodriguez is looming as a nine-year distraction, the Yankees want to try to use the equivalent of a plastic toy shovel to begin digging out from the avalanche.
The message is obvious: the Democrats are so ideologically bankrupt that they need the equivalent of political plastic surgery to make themselves look like Republicans, and therefore palatable to ordinary Americans.
The Guardian's Ed Power, for example, called Guinness the liquid equivalent of a plastic bodhrán or a strap-on leprechaun beard, and concluded that the whole rigamarole would have made sense in 1959, but was hopelessly misguided in the 21st century.
These caps – called telomeres – are basically the chromosome equivalent of those plastic bits that stop shoelaces from getting frayed.
Given the non-associated flow rule with no dilation (ψ = 0.1°), without considering the tensile strength of this clay, Figs. 13 and 14 show the contours of the magnitude of equivalent plastic strains (PEMAG in ABAQUS or defined as SDV9 in the UMAT) and the contours of displacements in critical plastic penetration state, respectively, obtained by ABAQUS (σ t = not set) and the UMAT (a = 0.05).
