Plastic foam product limitations have already been ordered in several other cities, including Seattle, Washington, and Brookline, Massachusetts.
Not only does the package include inserts for cutting through the plastic, but it highlights the product's unique presentation controls by offering a rotating plastic pod that functions as a hard carrying case once the product is unpacked.
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In the meantime, Lowry hopes to expand ocean plastic to other product lines and increase the amount of ocean material in the recycling mix.
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Then the product was trucked about 200 miles to central Wisconsin, where another contractor bundled adhesive foam with plastic hooks and put the product into blister packaging.
As plastic is a petroleum based product these small particles act as persistent organic polluters, which means that they form a sponge attracting toxins such as insecticides and pesticides.
The problem was most acute for Mattel's most profitable product: a pink plastic doll called Barbie.
"We recognize the market has dramatically changed, and with the product delays we have experienced, it no longer make sense for us to move forward with our first generation electronic reading product, " said Plastic Logic CEO Richard Archuleta.
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It is hard to see Boil Fashion becoming a challenger to Zara or Zhejiang Best Plastic becoming a global leader in its signature product, wallpaper.
In 2009, the company launched the evolve product line which uses 25 percent less plastic and is made in a facility that is partially powered by wind energy.
"It's not just more people driving, it's also every product that you buy is made of plastic or synthetic materials out of China is made with oil, " said Patrick Chovanec of Tsinghua University.
We continue to perfect our core plastic electronic technology and manufacturing processes that are central to our product's unique value proposition.
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This market-share surge in a business known for glacial progress owes mainly to product innovations like colored ketchups (purple, pink, blue) and plastic squeeze bottles (see box, p. 128).
The company's main product, a mushroom-growing kit, is a cardboard box that houses a plastic bag filled with coffee grounds and mushroom spawn.
Responding to the imperative of the product marketing cycle, the company is on to a new narrative and different combinations of ingeniously engineered plastic parts.
At the Frequencies media summit in Seattle over the last two days, HTC walked us through the fine details on how its smartphones are developed, going from the boring rectangular ABS block to the more refined plastic mockups that are presented to carriers and focus groups -- the findings of which then shape the final product.
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