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How To Limit Your BPA Exposure

Washington Post
April 15, 2008 - The man-made plastics component, often found in hard (polycarbonate) plastics and softer polyvinyl chloride (PVC) products, is virtually ubiquitous. Heating plastics to high temperatures may promote the leaching of chemicals out of containers and into the food or liquid they hold. ...
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Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty?

New York Times
April 13, 2008 - Car parts were manufactured swiftly and in small batches, which helped to cut waste, improve efficiency and more easily correct manufacturing defects. O.K., do you see the giant green sign that says ‘Believe in God’? Yes? As cellphone technology grows increasingly sophisticated, it has cannibalized — for better or worse — the technologies that have come before it. ...
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Coke Launches Clothing Line Made from Plastic Bottles

Brand Week
April 09, 2008 - By Kenneth Hein Forget polyester and rayon, the new hot fabric will be recycled plastic bottles if Coca-Cola has its way. Last year, there were 328 new environmentally-friendly products launched, per the Mintel Global New Products Database. Mintel, Chicago, also found nearly 200 million Americans are now actively purchasing green products. ...
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Harnessing Biology, and Avoiding Oil, for Chemical Goods

New York Times
April 09, 2008 - Using propanediol as a starting point, DuPont has created a new polymer it calls Cerenol, which it substitutes for petroleum-sourced ingredients in products like auto paints. George John, a chemist at the City College of New York, and others, for example, have designed a polymer gel for drug ingestion using a byproduct of the fruit industry as a starting point. John Pierce, DuPont’s vice president for applied biosciences-technology. ...
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A Cleaner, Leaner Jet Age Has Arrived

New York Times
April 09, 2008 - And those new engines will power planes built more and more with carbon composite materials, which are lighter and may also be safer than the aluminum they replace. The expanding gas then blows out the back of the engine, producing thrust that pushes the plane forward. Those new regional jets and other new planes will also use more composites. ...
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Seattle Council Recommends Plastic Bag Fee

National Association of Convenience Stores
April 07, 2008 - “The answer to the question ‘Paper or plastic?’ should be ‘neither,’” Nickels said at a news conference. San Francisco has outright banned plastic bags, while the Chinese government is considering a proposal that would make customers pay for disposable plastic bags received at retail venues, China Retail Now reports. ...
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For Seattle Shoppers, Paper or Plastic Could Come with a ‘Green Fee’

New York Times
April 05, 2008 - “Neither” is of course the greenest answer. Nickels’s credentials as one of the nation’s greenest mayors.) “This combination of environmental and economic stewardship will help ensure a truly sustainable city,” Mayor Nickels said. She figured she would have needed a dozen plastic bags to carry the whole load. ...
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Industry News & Analysis

Modern Plastics
April 01, 2008 - New GW silicones unit Injection molder GW Plastics (Bethel, VT) will form a new business unit, GW Silicones, at its Royalton, VT facility. Sabic already is the world’s fourth-largest polyolefins supplier, and leapt into the engineering plastics world by acquiring GE Plastics (now named Sabic Innovative Plastics) for $11.6 billion. Brown Machinery is the largest North American manufacturer of thermoforming machines. ...
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Millions of Jobs of a Different Collar

New York Times
March 26, 2008 - Labor unions view these new jobs as replacements for positions lost to overseas manufacturing and outsourcing. “The development of a green economy creates a broad new set of opportunities,” Ms. As the green economy grows, states are vying for green investments — and green jobs. ...
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Nassau to require retailers to recycle bags

Newsday
March 23, 2008 - ...plastic shopping bags that end up adorning parking meters, trees, fences and other public structures.Legislation to be introduced this week would require many supermarkets and retailers in Nassau to collect and recycle plastic bags, which are not biodegradable, and would encourage shoppers to switch to reusable sacks.Suffolk County enacted a plastic bag recycling law in December, New York City followed in January, and many other municipalities have legislation in the......
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