Now comes the news that avoiding plastic products containing BPA may not help.
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But the chemicals can leach out of plastic products and enter our bodies, where some scientists suspect they act like hormones.
Since he was an especially quick and enterprising fish, he managed to get married while he was pursuing her, and even to establish a small company that imported plastic products from the Far East.
The only plastic objects that can not now be recycled are heavily contaminated items, such as paint pots and plastic products, such as carrier bags, coal sacks, and clear material used to seal food containers.
Becton uses so much plastic producing its disposable injection products that margins can suffer when rising oil prices boost plastic resin costs.
He made these products manually using plastic drums and a huge mixing stick and heating oils, delivering his products by handcart to local salons and hairdressers.
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Taking into account labor, materials, transportation, and energy costs, the chemicals, primary metals, and heavy equipment manufacturing industries stand to benefit most from maintaining or expanding facilities in the U.S. Companies in wood, plastic, and rubber products could also benefit significantly, but their lower net imports might limit their benefits from on-shoring.
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The Coca-Cola Company is one of many iconic brands taking part in this global movement with a dedication to identifying products such as plastic bottles and aluminum cans that can be re-purposed for some of these trendy, recycled goods.
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We are using our proprietary technology leadership in plastic electronics to create a range of innovative products.
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The company uses resin, aluminum and plastic injection molding to help designers see their products come to life.
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If this can move into mass production, we may start seeing products that were previously made of plastic be made of metal glass instead.
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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).
EOS, a German supplier of laser-sintering 3D printers, says they are already being used to make plastic and metal production parts by carmakers, aerospace firms and consumer-products companies.
Nor did it have any new data regarding the unauthorised silicone filler, which was meant for products like mattresses, according to the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS).
We would start to see Proposition 65 warnings on the thousands of consumer products, including automobile and aircraft parts, beer cans, plastic bath and kitchen appliances, cell phones, cameras, flat screen television sets, hand held computing devices, that use BPA to improve their safety and performance.
They insist their products cause no harm whatsoever, and they say it's only the plastic in a nappy which doesn't break down quickly.
In the U.S., consumers have been slow to adopt mobile-payments products that enable transactions by tapping a phone instead of swiping a piece of plastic.
There, working with local community groups, he built a business for Unilever that offers a branded, affordably-priced, self-contained plastic toilet and a toilet cleaning service run by a local social business which uses Unilever cleaning products.
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The ability to pay for products with points has been available online for years, but has yet to pass to plastic.
Mr. CHARLES DREVNA (National Petrochemical and Refiners Association): For lack of a better term, we make plastic pellets, and those plastic pellets, whether they're ethylene derived or propylene derived or whatever, are transformed into products that we use every day.
Electronic equipment, high-end beauty products, vouchers for vacations and four-star hotels, gift certificates for hair transplants or plastic surgery, bottles of booze, diamonds--all are de rigueur in the celebrity swag bag.
They've put advertising on their vending machines and even on the tiny earplug plastic case, along with marketing schemes using mobile phone codes to direct consumers to web sites to view more products.
In addition to recycled products, Ford also uses other eco-friendly materials including soy foam seat cushions and natural-fiber plastic in center interior components.
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