<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : Plastic : ATOM 0.3</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><entry><title><![CDATA[A Plastic Conspiracy?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/61386/1/" /><id>61386</id><summary><![CDATA[A Plastic Conspiracy?]]></summary><issued>2008-05-11T10:12:14+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-11T10:12:14+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[How to use up your illegal plastic grocery bags]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18381/1/" /><id>18381</id><summary><![CDATA[How to use up your illegal plastic grocery bags]]></summary><issued>2007-04-29T09:13:26+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-29T09:13:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Crochet a handbag from those outdated plastic bags!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>.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA['Gender-bending' fear over plastic drinks bottles]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/116275/1/" /><id>116275</id><summary><![CDATA['Gender-bending' fear over plastic drinks bottles]]></summary><issued>2009-05-22T10:50:20+01:00</issued><modified>2009-05-22T10:50:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Drink from plastic bottles can raise the body&#8217;s levels of a controversial &#8216;gender-bending&#8217; chemical by more than two thirds, according to tests.<br/><br/>Experts have been concerned about the possible health effects of bisphenol A (BPA) - an everyday chemical used in many plastic food and drink containers and tins as well as clear baby bottles - which is officially classified as toxic in some countries.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Swiss town erects giant plastic Michael Jackson]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/126603/1/" /><id>126603</id><summary><![CDATA[Swiss town erects giant plastic Michael Jackson]]></summary><issued>2009-07-03T16:20:05+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-03T16:20:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A giant plastic statue of Michael Jackson has been unveiled...]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Turtles confuse plastic bags for jellyfish]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/106170/1/" /><id>106170</id><summary><![CDATA[Turtles confuse plastic bags for jellyfish]]></summary><issued>2009-04-10T06:47:16+01:00</issued><modified>2009-04-10T06:47:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A study has found plastic in the stomach contents of an alarming number of dead turtles, suggesting the extent of plastic pollution in the oceans.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Student Discovers Way To Decompose Plastic Bags in 3 Months]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/63349/1/" /><id>63349</id><summary><![CDATA[Student Discovers Way To Decompose Plastic Bags in 3 Months]]></summary><issued>2008-05-27T13:09:30+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-27T13:09:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bacteria Ready to Make Plastic From Sugar]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/78264/1/" /><id>78264</id><summary><![CDATA[Bacteria Ready to Make Plastic From Sugar]]></summary><issued>2008-09-30T10:22:41+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-30T10:22:41+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[10 Worst Plastic Surgery Disasters]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/97111/1/" /><id>97111</id><summary><![CDATA[10 Worst Plastic Surgery Disasters]]></summary><issued>2009-03-02T02:01:42+01:00</issued><modified>2009-03-02T02:01:42+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Continuing the plastic surgery theme. Some of these are just plain freaky. In fact, <b>all</b> of them are... Honestly, who injects cooking oil into their face!?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Latest Craze in Plastic Surgery: Revision]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/58686/1/" /><id>58686</id><summary><![CDATA[The Latest Craze in Plastic Surgery: Revision]]></summary><issued>2008-04-17T10:16:52+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-17T10:16:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Patients are demanding better results from their plastic surgeons and looking for doctors to perform revision plastic surgery.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Children find baby in plastic bag]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/96560/1/" /><id>96560</id><summary><![CDATA[Children find baby in plastic bag]]></summary><issued>2009-02-26T08:27:49+01:00</issued><modified>2009-02-26T08:27:49+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A day-old baby has been found wrapped in a plastic carrier bag by a group of children outside a south London flat.<br/><br/>The girl, who has been named Grace, was found on the doorstep of a third floor flat at Winterslow House, Flaxman Road in Brixton, at 0825 GMT on Wednesday.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Dying woman spends &#163;40,000 on plastic surgery.. to look like Demi Moore]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/96256/1/" /><id>96256</id><summary><![CDATA[Dying woman spends &#163;40,000 on plastic surgery.. to look like Demi Moore]]></summary><issued>2009-02-24T20:52:28+01:00</issued><modified>2009-02-24T20:52:28+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A woman with an inoperable brain tumour is spending &#163;40,000 on plastic surgery &#8211; so she can die looking like movie star Demi Moore.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Plastic removed from a man's lung]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133205/1/" /><id>133205</id><summary><![CDATA[Plastic removed from a man's lung]]></summary><issued>2009-09-18T10:44:29+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-18T10:44:29+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[John Manley complained of fatigue, coughing fits and pneumonia spells and now, after two years of agony, doctors at Duke University Hospital believe a small piece of plastic is to blame. Manley, 50, apparently inhaled the 1-inch plastic fragment while eating at a Wendy's restaurant. The Wendy's logo can still be seen on the side of the plastic.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Plastic ocean: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/78321/1/" /><id>78321</id><summary><![CDATA[Plastic ocean: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch]]></summary><issued>2008-09-30T20:08:10+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-30T20:08:10+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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)]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Model takes aim at plastic surgery record]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/48567/1/" /><id>48567</id><summary><![CDATA[Model takes aim at plastic surgery record]]></summary><issued>2008-01-27T15:50:43+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-27T15:50:43+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[So she had them lifted, adored the results, and became so fascinated with cosmetic surgery that her next two husbands were plastic surgeons.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Garden gnome maker's plastic prostitutes]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/82456/1/" /><id>82456</id><summary><![CDATA[Garden gnome maker's plastic prostitutes]]></summary><issued>2008-11-21T01:58:48+01:00</issued><modified>2008-11-21T01:58:48+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Romanian entrepreneur has come under fire for putting plastic prostitutes on the street to advertise his garden gnome business.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Eco-chic: Debenhams unveil recycled women's suit made from 50 plastic bottles]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/107310/1/" /><id>107310</id><summary><![CDATA[Eco-chic: Debenhams unveil recycled women's suit made from 50 plastic bottles]]></summary><issued>2009-04-15T09:42:20+01:00</issued><modified>2009-04-15T09:42:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[It is sometimes said that beautiful women can look good dressed in any old rubbish.<br/><br/>Well now they can test that theory. Designers from Debenhams have come up with a &#163;55 trouser suit that is made entirely from recycled plastic bottles.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Nano-layered plastic sheet is strong as steel]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/37451/1/" /><id>37451</id><summary><![CDATA[Nano-layered plastic sheet is strong as steel]]></summary><issued>2007-10-05T12:17:47+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-05T12:17:47+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Awful Plastic Surgery]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/51583/1/" /><id>51583</id><summary><![CDATA[Awful Plastic Surgery]]></summary><issued>2008-02-21T13:22:36+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-21T13:22:36+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Scientists Sail to Pacific Plastic Garbage Patch]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/129901/1/" /><id>129901</id><summary><![CDATA[Scientists Sail to Pacific Plastic Garbage Patch]]></summary><issued>2009-08-04T18:30:33+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-04T18:30:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[It's not your average garbage dump: Out in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean lies the &quot;Great Pacific Garbage Patch,&quot; an area of open sea hundreds of miles across littered with floating bits of plastic debris.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[China Bans the Use of Plastic Bags]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/47334/1/" /><id>47334</id><summary><![CDATA[China Bans the Use of Plastic Bags]]></summary><issued>2008-01-15T11:05:50+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-15T11:05:50+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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.]]></content></entry></items></xml>