These included aluminum foil, paper, silicone, wax, tape, casting compounds and many other techniques that were incredibly novel and advanced at the time of their development.

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Plastic tops were removed, foil peeled off, paper containers unclasped, and the room filled with a happy clatter, the air with culturally diverse aromas: curry, ginger, garlic, basil.

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Frank Gehry, a godfather of contemporary American design if there is one, is shown crumpling paper or aluminium foil into a form, and then scanning the shape by computer in order to reduce it to two dimensions or make it into a model, so that a design can be refined or manufactured.

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Mr Cockburn said that some items which seem like ideal candidates for recycling, like wrapping paper or cards backed with foil or plastic, simply will not be accepted.

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And then there's glass and hard and soft plastics, and paper, and card and tin foil.

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Even pieces of paper stuck to a wall were backed with aluminium foil.

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Take a piece of foil about 25 inches long, fold it into thirds lengthwise, and fasten the ends with a paper clip.

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