Search Details

Word: plastic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...ECOLS Recycling rules at this furniture and accessories store (8 Gough Street), where items come with an environmentally friendly twist. Choose from funky handbags created from candy wrappers, intricate necklaces and bracelets made from "eco-plastic," coffee tables fabricated from discarded milk cartons, and the like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Reasons to Visit Hong Kong's NoHo | 11/26/2009 | See Source »

...book, the crucial scene between Bella and Edward in the school parking lot happens on a snow day, but snow is expensive. "So the snow became the rain. And then I had to cut the rain out and show that it had rained with some fake patches of plastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Twilight in America: The Vampire Saga | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...Jersey. Before Kistner opened his first store, he had 1,000 customers signed up, and today there are three Green Apple Cleaners in the metropolitan area. It may help that Kistner throws in a few green extras, paying customers to return hangers and employing reusable or biodegradable plastic bags. Outside major urban areas like New York, environmentally friendly cleaners can be tougher to find. But the company Green Earth Cleaning has licensed its technology to launderers around the world; you can find a green cleaner near you on its website, GreenEarthCleaning.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guilt-Free Laundry | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...when he first shows up at Wingate Christian High School in Tennessee. His mother is a crack addict he hasn’t seen for years and his father is nonexistent. He carries one extra shirt around with him in a plastic bag. Some nights he sleeps on a stoop, some nights in the school gym, some nights on his friend Steven’s couch...

Author: By Anna E Sakellariadis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Blind Side | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

...around the world each year - and local economies on both sides of the planet depend on it. Off the coast of the Spanish port of Cartagena, hundreds of seagulls swarm the same patch of water six days a week, waiting for a boat to arrive and uncoil a long, plastic tube into the water. As sardines and mackerel are pumped into the deep, the water begins to churn. Hundreds of bluefin tuna, circling in vast cages beneath the water's surface, duke it out for their daily meal. This is a tuna ranch, a method that started in the Mediterranean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunting for Tuna: The Environmental Peril Grows | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

Previous | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | Next