Word: styrofoam
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...raft consisted simply of two massive truck inner tubes encased in a frame of iron and wood, all covered with Styrofoam. The young men, who range in age from 20 to 30, had planned this trip for weeks. To train for the adventure, each went out daily on an inner tube to fish, both at night and by day. The men did not give their names. One says he is sure they will make it to Florida. A few years ago, they would have spent a year in jail for "illegal departure" if they were picked up by Cuban patrol...
...dinky for two bucks, but that woman's sandwich did look good. I mean it. That was a good looking sandwich. Lee's Beehive Dunster St., across from the Garage. Green furniture with plants and Chinese paintings. Also, lots of hand-painted signs. Krinkle-cut fries on a styrofoam plate and a small ginger ale. Apparently, this place is extremely popular with motorcycle cops and women on their coffee breaks. Also, there was a scruffy-looking guy eating a big roast beef sandwich which looked even better than the turkey sandwich that woman had in Leo's Place. The fries...
Watching from one of the club's three bars, Mike Levi, a horse rancher from the nearby San Fernando Valley, spits chewing tobacco into a Styrofoam cup and shakes his head. "To me this is fun, but it's not good," he gripes. "Most of the people here are really what country people would call city slickers...
...negative effect of a loss of tropospheric ozone can be illustrated by the present trend to phase out chloroflorocarbons (CFCs), present in aerosols and Styrofoam, and replace them with hydrochloroflorocarbons, (HCFCs...
...recycling in the U.S. claim that it weakens the economy, but Germany, one of the world's strongest economies, is showing that isn't necessarily so. Since last December, manufacturers and retail stores in Germany have been required to take back such transport packing materials as cardboard boxes and Styrofoam. This spring the requirement was extended to "secondary packaging" such as cardboard boxes for toothpaste or deodorants. By next year, consumers will be able to return sales packaging -- from yogurt cups to meat wrappers -- to the point of purchase for disposal. In mid-1995 German manufacturers will be responsible...