According to the headlines in some of yesterday's papers, England is currently in a state of plastic bag "chaos", all because of a new 5p charge for plastic bags in supermarkets.
The vessels brandished by the roughly 100 women at the protest last month at a government office in Tiruchirappalli, in Tamil Nadu State, of plastic, brass or earthenware, were what they use to collect their households' daily supply of water.
The UK's Axion Recycling in Salford operates a state-of-the-art plastics recycling plant that focuses on sorting materials from torn up vehicles.
Four out-of-state plastics manufacturers gave 97% of the contributions to the American Progressive Bag Alliance campaign against California's law, according to Maplight, a nonpartisan research organization that looks at money in politics.
Four out-of-state plastics manufacturers gave 97% of the contributions to the American Progressive Bag Alliance campaign against California's law, according to Maplight, a nonpartisan research organization that looks at money in politics.
When French customs agents seized the boat called Eksund in October 1987, they found 150 tons of sophisticated arms, including more than 20 SAM-7 surface-to-air missiles, two cases of RPG-7 rocket launchers, 1,000 Kalashnikovs and two tons of Semtex, the odorless, state-of-the-art plastic explosive from Czechoslovakia, all of it supplied by Libya.
New York City instituted a tax on plastic bottles in 1971, Congress debated a ban on all non-returnable containers in 1973, and the state of Hawaii banned plastic bottles entirely in 1977.
He took care of janitorial duties around his office - wiping a corner of the basin with a palm, then lowering a blind over a window, casting a glance into the state of his green plastic waste-basket.
In addition, the transport conditions and the physical state of boxes and plastic bags must be inspected.
A recent job involved translating a report on the state of Germany's waste plastics market.
