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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The story Plastic Bags: Convenient and Cruel states that” Humans use an estimated 1 trillion plastic bags every year. That’s about 10 times the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy.” Well do you think that is true? Well if you do you think plastic bags are bad. Well they are between the two articles and the plastic bags are cruel,
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every bag we get at grocery stores. I believe this is unfair and irrelevant, the governments reasoning behind charging 10 cents every bag was because they wanted a reason for people to not buy as many plastic bags because they arent bio degradeable, but in reality them charging 10 cents every bag isnt benefiting anyone at all, in one way if the government really wanted the problem to go away they would get rid of most plastic bags all together and repace all of them with paper bags or cloth bags. Another
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estimated 102 billion shopping bags a year, more than 500 per consumer. The plastic bag has become a common place item in most peoples lives and households. The thin polythene bags are used by millions of Americans every day, and most are used only once and then discarded. These plastic bags end up in storm drains, landfills, marine environments, or stuffed in the back of dark cupboards. Susan Frienkel, the author of “Plastic: A Toxic Love Story”, notes that “The plastic bag has come to represent the
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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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Bag Tax in Montgomery County The bag tax in Montgomery county almost useless. Paying 5 cents for each plastic bag at any store. People still buy the bags and still throw them away and litter and leave them all over the place. Sometimes people aren’t even charged for the bags. Yet at times even if people are charged for the bags they still liter ,at least the bag tax can be used to clean up the environment. But in the end is the bag tax really to clean up the pollution issues in the county. All
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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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a sealable plastic bag. The first step in this lab is to weigh the wax paper and then add 5 grams of baking soda onto the wax paper. After I weighed 5 grams of baking soda, I placed into a sealable plastic bag. Next, I measured 5 mL of vinegar using a measuring cup and poured it into a plastic canister. Carefully, I then placed the canister of vinegar in the plastic bag, squeezed the air out of the bag, and sealed it tightly. Using the triple beam balance, I measured the mass of the bag and the materials
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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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Scare Flies Away With The Plastic Bag Trick The plastic bag trick is a cheap way to keep flies out of your home. Despite what its name may imply, it’s not tricky to make. Simply fill large, clear plastic bags with water, tie the bags shut, and hang them outside of your windows and doors. To flies, the bags full of water appear to be spiderwebs, so the flying insects avoid passing them. Scare Flies Away With The DVD Trick The DVD trick is similar to the plastic bag trick. To utilize this strategy
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strongly influences customers to use reusable grocery bags by giving affordable bags and giving at least a nickel per bag for refund. Whole Foods has announced the interested campaigned which to stop using plastic grocery bag in the US, Canada and UK since 2009. They launched a new reusable bag called “A Big Bag,” which made from special fabric woven from recycled plastic bottles that is more durable and stronger than any other reusable bag. This program can
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In this experiment, if the bag were permeable to starch, the starch would move out of the bag. If the bag
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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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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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brown bag) was his cow, he had no reason to believe that his cow was not in the field otherwise. He was justified in this belief because he and his son had recently built a sturdy barbed-wire fence enclosing his cow in the field so that it would be less likely to escape. Objection 2: With the aid of the Justified True Belief Analysis, one can conclude that Farmer Moore indeed knew that his cow in the field because (1) he believed his cow was in his field, (2) had evidence — the plastic bag and the
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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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already on the catheter. HOW TO WEAR A DRAINAGE BAG You should have: A large overnight bag. A small leg bag. Overnight Bag You may wear the overnight bag at any time. Always keep the bag below the level of your bladder but off the floor. When you sleep, put a clean plastic bag in a wastebasket. Then hang the bag inside the wastebasket. Leg Bag Never wear the leg bag at night. Always wear the leg bag below your knee. Keep the leg bag secure with
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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 gathered our supplies, four plastic bags, four potato slices with skin, water, paper towel sheets, and a sharpie marker. Then, our second step was to set our experiment up. We first started by taking the sharpie and labeling each plastic bag with a different condition, our table number(7), and our class period(J). Then we took 2 paper towel sheets and folded them in four sections and poured some water on them. With those two sheets we placed them in the two bags that had moisture condition. We
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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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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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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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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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I arrested him on the warrant. While performing a search to incident of arrest, I found a clear plastic bag containing marijuana in his left front pants pocket. I asked Alexander if that was his and he advised it was his. When asked whose marijuana it was that was found in the driver door, both Towne and Alexander denied ownership. Officer Williams
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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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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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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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