<rss version="0.91"><channel><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : plastic : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><item><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : plastic : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Plastic Conspiracy?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/61386/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Is Big Plastic is out to get me? Will my story be told on 60 Minutes? Cashiers who cannot understand the concept of not wanting to use plastic and finding bags in mailboxes. It makes a guy wonder.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to use up your illegal plastic grocery bags]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18381/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Crochet a handbag from those outdated plastic bags!  Refers to AutumnLotus's posting <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/science/environment/l/18344/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here.</a><br/><br/>Learn how to make &quot;yarn&quot; from bags <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.myrecycledbags.com/2007/02/17/instructions-for-cutting-plastic-bags-creating-recycled-plastic-yarn/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Student Discovers Way To Decompose Plastic Bags in 3 Months]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/63349/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A very bright young student has successfully completed his first round of experiments looking for microbes and proper environmental conditions that will decompose of plastic bags in 3 months time rather than 1000 years time. The results are VERY promising.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bacteria Ready to Make Plastic From Sugar]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/78264/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Claims of biology-based oil and plastic usually bear the caveat &quot;in five years.&quot; But a San Diego-based company claims they will have a pilot plant for production of E. coli-based 1,4 butanediol (BDO), the base chemical for plastic products ranging from Spandex to car bumpers, next year.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Latest Craze in Plastic Surgery: Revision]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/58686/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Patients are demanding better results from their plastic surgeons and looking for doctors to perform revision plastic surgery.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plastic ocean: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/78321/1/</link><description><![CDATA[It began with a line of plastic bags ghosting the surface, followed by an ugly tangle of junk: nets and ropes and bottles, motor-oil jugs and cracked bath toys, a mangled tarp. Tires. A traffic cone. Moore could not believe his eyes. Out here in this desolate place, the water was a stew of plastic crap. It was as though someone had taken the pristine seascape of his youth and swapped it for a landfill.<br/><br/>(Posted 1 year ago by BrownTrout)]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Model takes aim at plastic surgery record]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/48567/1/</link><description><![CDATA[So she had them lifted, adored the results, and became so fascinated with cosmetic surgery that her next two husbands were plastic surgeons.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nano-layered plastic sheet is strong as steel]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/37451/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A new transparent, composite plastic as strong as steel and as thin as a sheet of paper has been developed. The plastic could be used one day to produce lighter, stronger armour for soldiers or police and their vehicles. It also has potential to reduce the energy required to separate gasses in chemical factories and improve microtechnology such as microchips or biomedical sensors.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Awful Plastic Surgery]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/51583/1/</link><description><![CDATA[This Has been a favorite website of mine for a while now. They point out celebrities who look like they have had bad plastic surgery. I am not really into celebrities, but there is a lot of interesting stuff on plastic surgery. There is a lot of good stuff in the archives too.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[China Bans the Use of Plastic Bags]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/47334/1/</link><description><![CDATA[China announced this week that production and use of plastic bags in supermarkets and retail shops will be banned beginning June 1. Chinese citizens use as many as 3 billion plastic bags a day.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[New plastic shifts between hard, soft]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/53530/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Scientists in the US have created a breakthrough substance that can change in seconds when exposed to liquid, shifting from hard plastic to soft and back again. The material, inspired by the skin of sea cucumbers, has astounding &quot;mechanical morphing characteristics.&quot;]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Training with blue plastic AK 47]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/49731/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Training with blue plastic rifles in the army of Afghanistan]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small British town imposes plastic bag ban]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18344/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The small British town of Modbury is set to become the first community in Europe to ban the ubiquitous plastic grocery bag.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plastic to Revolutionize in the Near Future]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/21150/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Check out how scientists can actively integrate plastic in health, aerospace and computer industry. (Pollution also included)]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disturbing Truth About our &quot;Plastic Oceans&quot; ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/20042/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A vast swath of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas, is full of a plastic stew that is entering the food chain. Scientists say these toxins are causing obesity, infertility...and worse.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having Solved All Other Problems, SF Passes Plastic-Bag Ban]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/14475/1/</link><description><![CDATA[City leaders approved a ban on plastic grocery bags after weeks of lobbying on both sides from environmentalists and a supermarket trade group.  Doesn't it make you feel all warm inside?]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists create 'plastic' blood]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19907/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Scientists have developed an artificial plastic blood which could act as a substitute in emergencies.<br/><br/>sounds good to me, no more blood banks, no more shortages, and best of all no more risk of receiving contaminated blood.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Toy Soldier Stop Motion War]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/54070/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Your never too old for a good plastic soldier war!]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Plastic Goes When You Don't Recycle]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/33860/1/</link><description><![CDATA[This is one place where it ends up, anyway.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plastic Solar Cell Efficiency Breaks Record at WFU Nanotechnology Center]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/17417/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Researchers from Wake Forest University (WFU) in the U.S. report that they have developed flexible organic solar cells with an energy efficiency surpassing 6 percent, more than double the 3 percent efficiency they reached two years ago.]]></description></item></channel></rss>