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A Plastic Conspiracy? Posted: 2 years ago by sbcea
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.
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How to use up your illegal plastic grocery bags Posted: 3 years ago by hypnotode
Crochet a handbag from those outdated plastic bags! Refers to AutumnLotus's posting here.
Learn how to make "yarn" from bags here.
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The Latest Craze in Plastic Surgery: Revision Posted: 2 years ago by KEROberos32
Patients are demanding better results from their plastic surgeons and looking for doctors to perform revision plastic surgery.
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Children find baby in plastic bag Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
A day-old baby has been found wrapped in a plastic carrier bag by a group of children outside a south London flat.
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.
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Dying woman spends £40,000 on plastic surgery.. to look like Demi Moore Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
A woman with an inoperable brain tumour is spending £40,000 on plastic surgery – so she can die looking like movie star Demi Moore.
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Plastic removed from a man's lung Posted: 2 months ago by TraumaMamma
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.
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Plastic ocean: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Posted: 1 year ago by psycmoe
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.
(Posted 1 year ago by BrownTrout)
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Model takes aim at plastic surgery record Posted: 2 years ago by kirbykirst
So she had them lifted, adored the results, and became so fascinated with cosmetic surgery that her next two husbands were plastic surgeons.
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Garden gnome maker's plastic prostitutes Posted: 1 year ago by Bornbad
A Romanian entrepreneur has come under fire for putting plastic prostitutes on the street to advertise his garden gnome business.
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Eco-chic: Debenhams unveil recycled women's suit made from 50 plastic bottles Posted: 8 months ago by AutumnLotus
It is sometimes said that beautiful women can look good dressed in any old rubbish.
Well now they can test that theory. Designers from Debenhams have come up with a £55 trouser suit that is made entirely from recycled plastic bottles.
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Nano-layered plastic sheet is strong as steel Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
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.
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Awful Plastic Surgery Posted: 2 years ago by nickyrocks
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.
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Scientists Sail to Pacific Plastic Garbage Patch Posted: 4 months ago by Bornbad
It's not your average garbage dump: Out in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean lies the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," an area of open sea hundreds of miles across littered with floating bits of plastic debris.
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China Bans the Use of Plastic Bags Posted: 2 years ago by wildminou
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.
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New plastic shifts between hard, soft Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
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 "mechanical morphing characteristics."
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What Do You Do With a Plastic Fetus? Posted: 3 months ago by Doggylives
I needed about 4 or 5 plastic fetuses for an art project I'm doing (maybe one day ill finish it and link it from here), but I could only find them in 50-bags. One can never really have TOO MANY plastic fetuses, so I went ahead and bought them and began giving the extras away to friends and enemies.
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Puppy swallows 10.5 inch plastic arrow! Posted: 4 months ago by AutumnLotus
PDSA vets saved the life of a mischievous puppy who swallowed a full-length plastic arrow, measuring 10.5 inches, almost as long as the puppy herself!
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Training with blue plastic AK 47 Posted: 2 years ago by deepdiver
Training with blue plastic rifles in the army of Afghanistan
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'Gender-bending' fear over plastic drinks bottles Posted: 6 months ago by AutumnLotus
Drink from plastic bottles can raise the body’s levels of a controversial ‘gender-bending’ chemical by more than two thirds, according to tests.
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.
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Swiss town erects giant plastic Michael Jackson Posted: 5 months ago by topofall
A giant plastic statue of Michael Jackson has been unveiled...
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