Not bad for a poorly educated Siberian who began as a manufacturer of plastic toys.
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The art is their plastic toys, swimming trophies, pictures, books and hideous horse and fairy ornaments.
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In preparation for the federal ban, manufacturers have been reformulating baby rattles and plastic toys with phthalate substitutes.
The superheroes and the thundering plastic toys need to be tossed into the back of the closet, where they belong.
They symbolise Taiwan's transformation from a maker of cheap plastic toys 25 years ago to a manufacturer of leading technologies.
More recently Mattel launched an Apptivity series of iPad games designed to let kids control the games with their plastic toys.
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She was playing with bright colored plastic toys strewn alongside her bed.
More importantly, they keep acquiring stuff that cannot be consumed and never rots or rusts: plastic toys, metal garden furniture, porcelain knick-knacks.
"They don't want to just sell low-end plastic toys, they want to sell biomedical devices, " says Seattle lawyer Dan Harris, who specializes in China business issues.
These items range from original artwork by Spider-Man illustrators such as Steve Ditko to cheap plastic toys from the 1970s, the oldest and rarest of which can sell for thousands of dollars each.
Although the last part might be too much to swallow for critics who claim that a company that sells fast food and offers plastic toys cannot spout responsibility, Bannan offered some interesting context.
Then there are more existential threats, like a digital generation that favors 99-cent iPad apps over traditional toys, a shrinking number of toy stores and the looming concern that DIY 3-D printing will render premade plastic toys obsolete.
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After a period of calm following the 2008-2009 manufacturing slowdown due to the world financial and economic crisis, Chinese plants are running almost non-stop again, with demand in cars, consumer electronics, plastic toys like vuvuzelas coming from all corners of the globe.
He was in a relay race in which contestants had to retrieve plastic fruit toys from an inflatable pool.
She suggests using metal, not plastic or rubber, toys and trinkets.
She said the hardest things to recycle were soft plastic such as packaging contaminated with food as well as hard plastic such as broken toys that no one would want.
As is the case with comics that are diligently kept unread in plastic protective sleeves and toys that are stowed away in their original packaging, there are a number of reasonably affordable cars and trucks from recent model years experts say are worth holding onto for their appeal to future generations of enthusiasts.
"I don't like plastic kits, because they look like toys, and most of the applications built by plastic kits are just for fun, without practical use, " he says.
The rescue people dump his tags and toys into a plastic evidence bag, as if he were leaving prison.
Ms. BORDON-BILLIOT: It's just piles of metal and cars and tires and tractors, kid's toys, pieces of plastic.
If you have kids of a certain age, you will know how much you can spend on these ingenious plastic you-assemble-it toys.
So are the endless piles of cooking pots, suitcases, car parts, stationery, toys, mobile phones, plastic plants and erotic figurines.
People are also trying to get rid of dangerous microbes at home, especially when it comes to food packaging, plastic furniture and their children's bath toys.
The scheme, officially launched in September, allows rigid plastic items, such as buckets, garden furniture and children's toys to be recycled.
The toys are cheap to produce in China--about 50 cents for a plastic top or miniature beanbag animal, says Kellogg.
Their son, who is five, led everyone to the family room, opened the deep drawers of a reproduction Colonial bureau, and showed off his toys dinosaurs, jumbled together, snout upon tail, in a plastic mass grave.
The charity Medecins du monde hopes to create a stockpile of plastic guns as children are asked to make a symbolic gesture by giving up one of their toys.
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