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USDA has no plans to divert distiller's grains from feed troughs

Agweek
July 08, 2008 - He also has tested plastics with varying amounts of DDGs. There is a trade-off though. ...
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Grocery bag fee proposal gets warm reception

Seattle Post-Intelligencer
July 08, 2008 - Her presentation was followed nearly two hours later by an appearance from the "Plastic Menace" -- one Jake Harris of Wallingford, wrapped in plastic bags. More than a dozen grocery store owners and industry representatives also addressed the panel. The plastic container ban would be implemented in July 2010. ...
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Bottling plant looks to Orting after snubbing by Enumclaw As criticism of bottled water grows, two Cascade foothills communities are approached about hosting a major bottling plant. Enumclaw says no. Orting is intrigued.

The News Tribune
July 06, 2008 - ...plastic bottles is a strong recycling program that targets all plastic products. He said that less than a half percent of municipal waste in landfills is in the form of plastic bottles. In a speech to the Beverage Forum in May, Kim Jeffery, president of Nestle Waters North America, defended its product. "Taxing, banning or otherwise handicapping this industry will do nothing to solve municipal water problems, nor will it help with the very real problem of recycling in America,"......
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Opinion
July 05, 2008 - On March 27, 2007, San Francisco became the first U.S. city to ban plastic bags. Bangladesh, China and Rwanda have banned plastic bags. Butte copper played key roles in the industrialization of America. ...
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Environment got help from bag ban

Lexington Herald-Leader
July 03, 2008 - ...plastic bags."I still get plastic bags if I buy meat and it's leaky," she said. "I ask for a plastic bag, and then I reuse it at home or recycle it at the store."Bluegrass PRIDE doesn't have a specific campaign to promote reusable bags, but Moberly said it works with companies to find ways to minimize waste and encourage the reuse of plastic bags.Good Foods Market and Cafe allows customers to bring in their used plastic grocery bags for reuse in the store....
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Big Plastics, Big Dreams

The Columbian
July 03, 2008 - Smak Plastics Inc., different from the more common plastics manufacturers that employ injection molds, Kunz said. "Injection molding is for smaller parts," Kunz said. But the products Smak Plastics makes can be up to 11 feet long by 11 feet wide, a size that insulates the manufacturer from overseas competitors, Kunz said. "The price of shipping would be cost prohibitive," he said. Smak Plastics has leased 25,000 square feet of space at Olin Business Park in......
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China needs more efforts to fully ban free plastic bags (1)

English News Service
July 02, 2008 - China has also banned the production of ultra-thin plastic bags, thinner than 0.025 millimeters."It doesn't matter how much a plastic shopping bag costs. Before she could bring out the bag she had with her, the clerk had put the melon in a fairly thick plastic bag. ...
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China needs more efforts to fully ban free plastic bags (2)

English News Service
July 02, 2008 - Degradable plastic bags would only split and pulverize plastics earlier than the common type. Degraded plastic molecules would integrate with soil as well, reducing farming outputs. Plastic bags meeting with the 'free plastic bag ban' are not necessarily equal to environment-friendly bags. ...
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China needs more efforts to fully ban free plastic bags (3)

English News Service
July 02, 2008 - ...of plastic bags for a few years, industry officials said.In 2001, Shangri-La, also known in some guidebooks by its old name Zhongdian, the most beautiful and unstained place in northwest Yunnan, forbid the use of plastic bags. It became the first place in the country to ban plastic bags."During the past seven years, the most difficult thing for us is to find out proper substitutes," said Losang Chagxi, the environment protection bureau chief of Shangri-La County.When the......
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Ontario high school student develops way to decompose plastic bags in months

The Canadian Press
July 01, 2008 - After isolating these two bacteria, combining them with some sodium acetate and incubating the solution at 37 C, Burd was able to degrade the plastic by 43 per cent in six weeks. ...
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