In 2011, 250 tonnes of household plastic packaging was collected through the bring banks.
For some answering that question means lobbying companies and communities to find alternatives to plastic packaging.
The Public Services Department said the numbers printed on plastic packaging were often unclear or too small to read.
Now all plastic packaging except black items, thin films and polystyrene are allowed.
Consumerism has brought with it plastic packaging and new problems of waste management.
The discs will be processed and used for future plastic packaging.
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"One of the ways these discs could be reused is as a radiation shield because there's a lot of plastic packaging in the trash, " Mary Hummerick, a Qinetiq North America microbiologist at Kennedy Space Center in Florida working on the project, said in a statement.
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In addition, information tech projection Hitachi flat-screen TV has ever produced (President: Kenichi Yoshitake) is the production technology and techniques such as optical plastic substrate packaging technology developed in the manufacture of flat-screen televisions and other video equipment will continue to contract manufacturing products outside the Hitachi Group.
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.
For example, buyers of iPads are willing to pay an exorbitant price for the package of plastic and metal that make up an iPad because that package of plastic and metal can do quite amazing things compares to other packaging of plastic and metal.
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Three months later a colleague severed the ends of two fingers while feeding plastic into a packaging machine.
The system uses a retractable device which is held briefly against the surface of plastic or glass packaging.
These included a trend for plastic bottles and packaging material being found.
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The scheme has made no change to recycling plastic bottles and food packaging, which can still be dropped off at the bring bank sites.
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 price of raw materials wheat, cheese, meat and even the plastic resin used in packaging has trended higher in recent years, reflecting new claims on the global food supply from fast-growing emerging economies.
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Waste Management is even dabbling in the front end of waste production: In May it invested in a company that is developing a technology that aims to reduce the amount of plastic needed to make packaging, appliances and electronics.
The NCC said chains must further cut plastic bag use and recycle packaging.
That same year in Vancouver, British Columbia, several iPad shoppers at Future Shop and Best Buy stores said they opened the Apple packaging to find plastic bags filled with modeling clay.
The team of 15 girls from various departments under the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) collected, during a 15-minute exercise, 53 aluminium cans, 45 plastic bottles, nearly 30 plastic fragments including bags, packaging, bottle tops, five large aluminium food trays and about 25kg of fishing nets and nylon ropes.
The department has altered its policy on the collection of plastic, allowing most types of packaging to be deposited at the island's bring banks.
You can cram more plastic bottles into a truck because breakproof packaging isn't needed.
Piles and piles of plastic bottles, bags, Styrofoam, packaging material and other household trash can be seen as a permanent fixture.
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It'll be made out of stronger, more durable plastic, and there will be deluxe packaging for the CDs of top artists as well.
Cargill's NatureWorks division deploys bacteria to turn corn into a biodegradable plastic for water bottles, clothing and food packaging.
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.
Look at all of that -- diaper packaging, electronic wrap, the plastic wrap from around paper towels -- all stuff that I have thrown in the trash at one point or another because I had no idea how to recycle it.
Recycling the scraps of material donated by clothing factories and sculpting plastic bottles donated by residents of the community into packaging, are not only environmentally friendly, but financially benefit to the company.
And in one of the week's more unusual stories, we reported on a public housing extension in Italy that was made from plastic shopping bags and other bits of non-renewable packaging.
Monti killed that deal on a theory called conglomeratization: By buying a maker of machinery that produces rival plastic bottles, Tetra Laval could in a few years leverage its lead position in cartons to also control plastic alternatives (glass bottles and tin cans are the packaging products still out of Tetra Laval's reach).
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