We successfully produced 60 tons of polystyrene containing 10% packaging recyclate, with the same properties as virgin polystyrene.
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Some were given 1.8 grams of either polyethylene or polystyrene.
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Dunkin' Donuts is phasing out polystyrene foam cups by 2020.
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We have also used polystyrene and sculpted silicone directly on it.
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Polystyrene, produced in smaller volumes, is not widely sorted and recycled.
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Polystyrene is like all the foams, and all the coffee lids.
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A ceiling made of polystyrene then caught fire, releasing toxic gas.
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Los Angeles is studying whether to ban polystyrene, known as Styrofoam.
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Yet polystyrene is small fry among the many polymers in the market.
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They chewed through 1.1 grams of polyethylene and 0.98 grams of polystyrene.
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On the floor is a polystyrene plate with broth and some rice.
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Yet even as it diversified, Dart never gave up on polystyrene foam.
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For the automotive industry, for example, Dow used to supply rubber and polystyrene.
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I want that polystyrene tray to crumble under the weight of it all.
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Styrofoam, polystyrene thermal insulation of house wall install cell phone cover case iPhone5
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I am an experimental artist working in paint and melted polystyrene in Bushwick.
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Long gone are the days of lackluster sandwich vans or tea in polystyrene cups.
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At the base of the museum's rotunda stood an enormous, slowly rotating polystyrene foot.
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Other researchers had already found that mealworms can digest a particular plastic called polystyrene.
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Several Maryland counties, including Montgomery, Prince George's and Anne Arundel, already ban polystyrene products.
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To make houses, polystyrene foam is sandwiched between two slabs of steel wire mesh.
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To create the sculptures, Rinder says that Rondinone uses polystyrene foam, epoxy resin, and fabric.
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It might not have the sexiest name, but expanded polystyrene is truly a wonder material.
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Maryland's legislature also has approved bills to ban polystyrene, but it's unclear whether Republican Gov.
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In France, it's estimated that 120,000 tons of polystyrene packaging reaches the market each year.
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Polystyrene is also found in buildings (as insulation) and home appliances and used as wedges.
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Dunkin' Donuts announced its plans today to eliminate all polystyrene foam cups from its stores.
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Video footage showed polystyrene boxes and other debris littering a cross-section and blocking traffic.
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Think about that the next time you're scooping lukewarm noodles out of a polystyrene box.
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"There's steel and polystyrene but everything is coated in chocolate, with cocoa powder," Hubert said.
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Dow uses acid-catalyzed reactions to produce materials like styrene, a precursor of polystyrene plastic.
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Caption: LAV 3: ConEd barrier, plywood, extruded polystyrene, mixed mediaBrian Finke Astronauts practice for every eventuality.
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Target is working on ditching expanded polystyrene foam packaging from its own-brand packaging by 2018.
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Geberit is a big buyer of copper, polystyrene and plastics it uses in its piping systems.
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The measure bans the sale of containers made of expanded polystyrene, commonly referred to as Styrofoam.
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Polystyrene, a common ocean pollutant, decomposes in sunlight much faster than thought, a new study finds.
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Koto spokesman Hillary Wesonga said his company had set up a recycling plant for waste polystyrene.
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Taiwan media has also reported the presence of polystyrene in supporting beams, mixed in with concrete.
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Bob Smith (D-Middlesex) would have phased out plastic and paper bags and polystyrene food containers.
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In addition, two islands -- Maui and Hawaii, the Big Island -- have already banned polystyrene foam containers.
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The puck is a polystyrene disk coated in black paint and covered with a wind shield.
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Polystyrene clamshells and cutlery are easier and cheaper to make than reclaim, so recyclers don't try.
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So, to quote the title of this illustrious column, why is expanded polystyrene foam still a thing?
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That was significantly more than the worms eating polystyrene, who managed just 0.57 grams of the stuff.
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The state House of Delegates on Wednesday passed a bill that would ban polystyrene containers and cups.
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Last week, Swedish polystyrene maker BEWiSynbra Group cancelled its plans for an Oslo IPO citing market uncertainty.
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The sound it makes in my skin sounds like a fingernail being raked over polystyrene packing foam.
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This relatively new construction technology, using polystyrene, is gaining a foothold in Kenya's fast-expanding housing sector.
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Some elected officials and environmental groups say polystyrene containers are difficult to recycle in any meaningful way.
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The Legislature has approved bills to ban polystyrene -- commonly known as plastic foam -- cups and food containers.
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If he signs this bill into law, Maryland will be the first state to ban polystyrene food packaging.
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Lastly, the cup and lid combination is significantly more expensive than our current polystyrene cup and lid set.
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Ordinary moulds are made from wood and polystyrene, and can only be used to produce a single shape.
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Polystyrene foam take-out containers and cups are durable and waterproof — but also difficult and costly to recycle.
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Berkeley already bans polystyrene and imposed a plastic bag ban that predated California's statewide ban by several years.
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In the 90s, a super fast-food decade, you had the polystyrene boxes with lots of yellow M's.
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They were forced to burn plastic bottles and polystyrene to bake bread because fuel had become too expensive.
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JULY 20173: Packing peanuts and single-service Styrofoam containers — Expanded Polystyrene Foam — became illegal in New York City.
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But in a new paper, five scientists found that sunlight can degrade polystyrene in centuries or even decades.
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" A main rationale for his team's study, he added, "was to understand if polystyrene actually does last forever.
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Plastic packaging and products would be taxed up to a penny per item and polystyrene would be outlawed.
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Andrew Cuomo would make New York the second state to approve a ban on containers made of polystyrene.
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One intriguing example is a gut bacterium from mealworms that can digest polystyrene, converting it to carbon dioxide.
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To check, they turned to polyethylene, which is both more common than polystyrene and very different in chemical terms.
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Polystyrene, a nonbiodegradable plastic foam, is used for takeaway food and beverage containers, egg cartons, coolers and other products.
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Some 1970s versions of Verner Panton's S-shaped chairs were molded out of a thermoplastic polystyrene called Luran-S.
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In the lab, the researchers tested five different samples of polystyrene to see if sunlight could tear them apart.
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Coincidentally, the city council passed a citywide ban on expanded polystyrene, commonly known as Styrofoam, at the same meeting.
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Polystyrene homes are also quicker to build, which could play a key part in reducing housing deficits, he added.
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Another bill in the Hawaii legislature is looking to expand these bans and prohibit polystyrene foam food containers statewide.
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The works are all backed either by a type of durable plastic called polystyrene or by an aluminum panel.
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She developed severe lung problems, after years of inhaling fumes from the polystyrene that she used to sculpt Nanas.
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And might different types of plastic, like polystyrene and polyethylene, swirl in water and blow in the winds differently?
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The polystyrene foam cups have been the target of petitions and angry fights on social media in the past.
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The journey your lamb shish made to that polystyrene container is a little more complicated than farm-to-table.
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Maryland is on the cusp of doing away with polystyrene (styrofoam) cups, containers, and food packaging once and for all.
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The proposed measure also would apply to polystyrene foam containers used for takeout meals, as well as plastic detergent bottles.
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When he looked back at his polystyrene tray, he realised that he had spelled out the word "ART" with chips.
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And there must also be a focus on how to recycle polystyrene waste from building sites and demolition, he added.
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For years, the company has emphasized how polystyrene foam can be recycled, just like some other forms of plastic containers.
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When the toy was tipped over, a pretty substantial amount of aluminum powder and polystyrene beads came pouring out, as expected.
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At just 1.7 centimeters, these robots are made of magnets and PVC sandwiched between layers of laser cut paper or polystyrene.
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He has a steel-and-carbon-fibre skeleton, and "muscles" filled with polystyrene balls and powered by remote-controlled pneumatic tubes.
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Otieno said a standard two-bedroom polystyrene house costs about $6,700, while one made of bricks can cost twice as much.
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But architect Muli said polystyrene homes are just as durable as concrete ones, provided the correct procedure is followed during construction.
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Currently, the most common uses for the recycled polystyrene include picture frames and plastic rolls that spool out cash register receipts.
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In the new experiment, polystyrene spheres were sliced in the shape of a spherical cap, mimicking the shape of a spore.
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Since the polystyrene is a hydrocarbon polymer, it happily breaks up into its constituent hydrogen and carbon atoms which then are compressed.
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The polystyrene foam take-out containers and cups targeted by lawmakers are durable and waterproof — but also difficult and costly to recycle.
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And Saint-Gobain is drawing on its familiarity with the insulation market to help validate commercial and technical specifications for recycled polystyrene.
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To stop all those $20 side tables from getting banged up, Ikea has to use a lot of polystyrene packaging every year.
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Ion-exchange resins are high-porosity forms of polystyrene tweaked with extra chemical groups that let them capture molecules of different sorts.
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There's this one guy, I can't remember his name now, but he does all the stuff with polystyrene like cutting it up?
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Some of the boys didn't know how to swim and were stuffing pieces of polystyrene down their underwear to keep them afloat.
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But, he added, the chemical structure of polystyrene — particularly its backbone of large, ringed molecules — made the plastic unappetizing to decomposing bacteria.
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The difference is mainly due to lower labor costs, as polystyrene is easier to move around and put in place, he noted.
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Polystyrene has been a major success in countries like Japan, where it has been used in small dome-shaped homes, he added.
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Otieno said the cost of building needs to be reduced if polystyrene construction is to become a popular building method in Kenya.
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Ryan Brooks, the owner, said that he made the switch when one of the counties he caters to, Albany, banned polystyrene containers.
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Incorporating wood, polystyrene, concrete, and bronze, his spray-painted constructions reflect both slick, industrial processes, as well as violent ones with chainsaws.
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Yellow rice is spooned from large vats into polystyrene trays and lentil soup is poured into bags ready for delivery to fighters.
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Unlike New York's ban on plastic straws, a polystyrene ban will force businesses to prioritize easier-to-recycle alternatives instead of burdening consumers.
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But if you push the joystick forward, the drone will tilt forward and use its polystyrene wings to fly more like a plane.
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Unfortunately, polystyrene isn't biodegradable, and people are bad at recycling, leaving Ikea looking for a better material to stick between sheets of ply.
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Maryland could become the first state to ban expanded polystyrene food service products after state senators passed a legislative measure Tuesday, WTOP reported.
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Since expanded polystyrene is 85033 percent air, it is not worth the cost of recycling once it is processed and cleaned, Kagan said.
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Critics say the measure would harm small farmers who use egg cartons or nonprofits that buy expanded polystyrene in bulk, the outlet noted.
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San Diego is considering a ban on polystyrene food containers that, if passed, would make it the largest California city to do so.
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Protesters and residents formed a barricade of polystyrene boxes around the bloodstain beside a pedestrian crossing after police forensic teams left the scene.
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They also found plastic such as polystyrene (which makes Styrofoam) and PVC (a toxic substance often used in pipes) in the Arctic snow.
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The study also found that additives to polystyrene, which can determine its color, flexibility and other physical features, can slow or speed decomposition.
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The tiny air bubbles trapped in the foam mean polystyrene houses can control climatic conditions better than buildings made of timber or concrete.
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That advantage outweighs the negative of polystyrene being derived from crude oil, he believes, especially in water-scarce urban and semi-arid areas.
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Lemus and Chávez got one last month while walking down a nearby block of First Street, drinking cafe de olla from polystyrene cups.
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The girls, 56 of them, were crammed into a room of less than 413 square feet and given 23 polystyrene mattresses to share.
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How it works Styrofoam cups are made of beads from a type of plastic called polystyrene , and the beads are puffed up with air.
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The short answer is that acetone is a really good solvent, especially of polystyrene—and styrofoam is just polystrene and a lot of air.
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Physicists at the University of Grenoble Alpes in France recreated Chladni's seminal experiment, only they used polystyrene microbeads suspended in water instead of sand.
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Huntsman founded Huntsman Container Corp in 1970 and four years later won the contract to create the polystyrene "clamshell" food container for McDonald's Corp.
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Protesters and residents formed a barricade of polystyrene boxes around the bloodstain next to a pedestrian crossing after police forensic teams left the scene.
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Despite the shoe box size of his current studio, in Hackney, East London, it's full of curiosities — polystyrene sculptures, plastic lotus flowers, colorful toys.
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With sophisticated tools of detection and analysis, Dr. Ward and his colleagues then traced the origin of the loose materials back to the polystyrene.
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Romanus Otieno, an urban planning lecturer at the University of Nairobi, said construction with polystyrene is ecologically friendly as it uses very little water.
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The polystyrene panels currently cost $21 per square meter, but the price should be halved to entice more home owners and developers, he said.
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Mr. Dart began experimenting with creating cups from polystyrene, a material with seemingly magical insulating properties that would serve the growing fast-food industry.
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Government bans on products like single-use plastic water bottles, shopping bags and polystyrene cups have sent retailers and consumer goods companies searching for solutions.
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Click here to view original GIFUsing sound frequencies above the human threshold for hearing, scientists have successfully levitated a two-inch sphere made from polystyrene.
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A small population of a thousand worms, they reckon, might manage to devour 0.32 grams of polyethylene or 0.28 grams of polystyrene in a day.
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The largest piece from the exhibit, measuring in at 15 feet across, is a force of asphalt and polystyrene and the centerpiece of Fisk's show.
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Polystyrene and caravans: the much needed collaboration to bring Atlantis to the surface (not yet done) and to take your travelling home across the oceans?
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After police forensic teams left the scene, protesters and local residents formed a barricade of polystyrene boxes around the bloodstain next to a pedestrian crossing.
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Using sound at an ultrasonic pitch the human ear can't detect, the researchers were able to levitate a two-centimetre polystyrene sphere using this method.
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National Geographic reports that the new law also prohibits retailers and restaurants from giving out plastic stirrers, cups, and takeout containers made from expanded polystyrene.
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According to Demchenko's Russian description on YouTube, it's 2.7 feet long and 1.9 feet high and built mainly out of carbon fiber and expanded polystyrene.
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But the technology has yet to be fully embraced by homeowners, tenants and other housing developers who remain skeptical about the strength of polystyrene panels.
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Muli urged government and non-profit organizations to lead the way in advocating for polystyrene housing projects because they are cost-effective and relatively green.
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Government bans on products such as single-use plastic water bottles, shopping bags and polystyrene cups have sent retailers and consumer goods companies looking for alternatives.
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We sat in the afternoon light, our noses sunburnt and our blisters throbbing, tucking into a small polystyrene tray of crab claws, prawns, and seafood sticks.
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The polystyrene ball, too, had these little squares cut out, and I had to get it in between the squares, so it was quite technical, actually.
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In time, Dr. Ward said, the accelerating search for the breakdown products of polystyrene and other kinds of oceanic pollution may let scientists "balance the books."
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It is not yet a major problem, as polystyrene construction is only just taking off in Kenya, but that could change in the future, he added.
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The group spent more than $170,000 in the first half of this year lobbying state lawmakers as well as local jurisdictions weighing polystyrene and plastic bans.
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Unfortunately, the very qualities that make expanded polystyrene (EPS) such an ubiquitous, cost-effective material are also the reasons it has become an all-out environmental nightmare.
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In locations, like Washington, DC, where the use of Styrofoam is now banned, Dunkin uses a plastic called polypropylene, which is much easier to recycle than polystyrene.
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In addition, this lid is made from High Impact Polystyrene (HIPS), which is not accepted in many municipal recycling programs and is also banned by many communities.
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Total, meanwhile, is contributing its industrial expertise with facilities and recycling innovative technology: the polystyrene will be treated at its plants in Carling, France and Feluy, Belgium.
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Do you subscribe to the sex, drugs, and sausage rolls festival-osophy that dictates everything you eat must be deep-fried and served on a polystyrene trays?
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The acquisition would give Chevron Phillips Chemical the opportunity to expand as Nova Chemicals's expandable polystyrene and resins are used in various industries from construction to packaging.
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The team reached this finding by introducing fluorescent green polystyrene microbeads into beakers containing larvae of Culex pipiens, a mosquito species that is common around the world.
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"Policymakers generally assume that polystyrene lasts forever," Collin P. Ward, a marine chemist at Woods Hole and the study's lead author said in a statement on Thursday.
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In the paper, the authors noted that the newly identified means of polystyrene breakdown "should be incorporated into global fate models" for plastics and help frame policy.
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In Ole Kasasi, a few kilometers from Kandisi where Opiyo lives in the privately owned housing development, is another polystyrene building, comprising 20 apartments on five floors.
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Andrew M. Cuomo of New York proposed a statewide ban on single-use food containers made of "expanded polystyrene" foam, more commonly, but inaccurately, known as Styrofoam.
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Polystyrene foam sales have been declining, and the company has been broadening its offerings to include more paper products, including coffee cups sold at Starbucks and Dunkin'.
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Dart says it's possible that used polystyrene could eventually be made into new drinking cups en masse, but right now there is limited collection and processing capacity.
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Designed to hold shoes up to a men's size 13, The Container Store's Drop-Front Shoe Boxes are made of clear polypropylene and polystyrene — aka hard plastic.
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Rachel Harrison's effervescent exhibition "Prasine," filled with skew-whiff sculptures in painted polystyrene, is a paradoxical achievement: It appears totally new by treating originality as a nonstarter.
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Overall, the most common type of plastic found was polystyrene, which goes into packaging and foam coffee cups, followed closely by PET, used in bottles and containers.
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They would be using the same plywood, the same Structo-Lite basecoat plaster, the same Georgia Pacific extruded polystyrene boards, to give form to multimillion-dollar apartments.
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The city banned styrofoam, also known as polystyrene, because the material can't be "recycled in a manner that is economically feasible" or "environmentally effective" in its recycling program.
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In Mexico, moves by some states to outlaw the use of plastic bags and polystyrene could help boost demand for bioplastics, said Carlos Camacho Vivar, founder of Ecoshell.
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Ott built an 8,000-cubic-foot polystyrene and spray foam mountain (with assistance from SpaceHaus), that maxed out the gallery space while creating an intimate invitation to participate.
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The helmet uses a honeycomb pattern to diffuse the impact of a blow, and Ms. Shiffer has said that it is as safe as a standard polystyrene helmet.
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Last year, in Santomà's studio in nearby Cornellà de Llobregat, around 300 people came to watch him make a table, a lamp and a chair out of polystyrene.
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If passed, the U.S. would phase out some of the single-use plastics most commonly found polluting our beaches, including plastic carryout bags, polystyrene foodware and plastic utensils.
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Made of polystyrene (just like petri dishes), it is gas-permeable, so appropriate levels of carbon dioxide and oxygen can be maintained inside it by the woman's own body.
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Using a tool called the Matter in Extreme Condition instrument, the scientists shocked a thin polystyrene sheet with a laser blast which produced pressure of up to 150 gigapascals.
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In their experiment, the researchers levitated a 2-inch (50-mm) polystyrene ball at a height of seven millimeters, which is about half the wavelength of the acoustic waves.
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Ms Brandon and Dr Criddle wondered whether polystyrene was uniquely palatable, or whether the bacteria in the worms' guts might be able to eat other sorts of plastic, too.
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The order of operations, known as PEMDAS, can save you from many math-based embarrassments, though few may ever find themselves facing down a wall of hardened polystyrene foam.
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According to NBC San Diego, the new law would affect any product made with polystyrene and plastic foam, including coolers, egg cartons, and, of course, take-out food containers.
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"Polystyrene cannot be recycled like a lot of other products, so while that cup of coffee may be finished, the Styrofoam cup it was in is not," Maine Gov.
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For Dennis Muli, an architect with Gem Archplans in Nairobi, the most important green benefit of polystyrene is its lightness, meaning less wood is needed to support the building.
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They are among a raft of polystyrene construction projects started in Kenya by different companies, including apartments in the western city of Kisumu built by Malaysian firm Koto Corp.
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Mr. Fasoli said that a ban would affect four upstate polystyrene plants that employ about 1,500 people and that it would force restaurants to pay double for alternative containers.
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According to CNBC, the State House of Delegates passed a bill last week that would ban polystyrene foam food containers and could slam a hefty $250 fine on offending retailers.
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He's led donkeys down the streets in Nairobi to symbolize the nation's fatigue with politics, and littered the roads with polystyrene babies to call-out the immaturity of Kenya's politicians.
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In the paper, the researchers described the study as "the first direct evidence" of how of sunlight can break down polystyrene in the environment into its basic chemical building blocks.
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"We used multiple methods, and they all pointed to the same outcome," he said in the statement: sunlight can turn polystyrene from a solid material back into basic chemical units.
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Other policies include bans on hard-to-recycle items including single-use plastic bags and polystyrene packaging and an ordinance requiring food vendors to use compostable or recyclable food containers.
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Andrew M. Cuomo is proposing a statewide ban on single-use food containers and packing peanuts made of polystyrene, a pollutant that is not biodegradable and is difficult to recycle.
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In that time, fire tore through the cheap polystyrene mattresses that the teenage girls had been given to sleep on, searing their flesh and muting their cries with noxious smoke.
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Below, a Bob Simmons—known as the father of modern surfboard design—board from 1949, made of a polystyrene core laminated with a mahogany veneer and sealed with fiberglass and resin.
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Polystyrene is lousy for the environment, poses a health risk to the people who make the cups, and may account for 30 percent of the stuff piling up in our landfills.
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In addition to straws and stirrers, Disney announced it would be working toward eliminating polystyrene cups at parks, and transitioning away from non-refillable amenities in its hotels and cruise cabins.
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"The lack of an environmental study in San Diego prior to the city considering a ban on polystyrene food packaging is alarming," the California Restaurant Association wrote in a press release.
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The dragonglass dagger, I had to stick it into this green polystyrene plastic ball, which would be the giant's eye, and it was quite funny, because the dagger was quite floppy!
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The ban will prevent local stores and food service establishments from offering expanded polystyrene foam items — meaning no more Styrofoam cups, trays, plates, egg cartons or clamshell containers for your food.
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Mary Nkatha, who lives in a concrete home near the new building in Ole Kasasi, has yet to be convinced that polystyrene can hold the weight of a house for long.
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Widely—and incorrectly—known by by the trademarked name Styrofoam™, this lightweight substance is crafted from petroleum-based polystyrene beads, which are stretched out during an intricate steaming and moulding process.
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It allows the red stuff to stay on shelves for between five and eight days, rather than two to four when simply wrapped on a polystyrene tray or draped behind a counter.
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In 1988, he took a temporary assignment managing a furore over polystyrene "clamshells" in which the company's burgers were served, and which were being damned for their contribution to America's litter problem.
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The conversion rate was low at first, but by the end of the experiment the worms fed polyethylene were converting 50% of it into gas and those fed polystyrene were converting 45%.
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With a layer of polystyrene underneath, a strapped on outboard motor and an aesthetically necessary splash of paint, the make-shift vessel made its maiden voyage out onto Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand.
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You start with a model—so with Geri, she posed for her legs, and we made a polystyrene model from that which was a tenth of the scale of the real thing.
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More than four-fifths of the polymers found by Greenpeace were polyethylene, polystyrene and polypropylene, which are used to make products such as food packaging, milk and water bottles and carrier bags.
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In New Jersey, at least 46 municipalities already limit plastic bag use, and the Legislature last week was on the verge of passing a statewide ban on bags and polystyrene food containers.
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I waited endless hours for the next flight in a fast-food restaurant, the only place with seats, and watched a mange-ridden dog licking out the polystyrene containers strewn on the floor.
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Where you may find it: Cyclic aliphatic bromide cluster is a group of chemicals found in flame retardants, plastic additives and certain polystyrene foams used in the construction industry for thermal insulation boards.
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Previous studies, including one last year by the United Nations Environment Program, have estimated that polystyrene, a ubiquitous plastic found in trash, could take thousands of years to degrade, making it nearly eternal.
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Arkema added that because the chemicals — organic peroxides used in kitchen countertops, polystyrene cups and plates, and other products — were stored at multiple locations at the facility, there was the chance of further explosions.
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A physics tutor at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, meanwhile, has been awarded funding to research a polystyrene composite, which could make insulation materials used in World Cup construction projects more heat resistant.
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Most of the legislative efforts to battle plastic waste have played out at the state and local levels, where officials have voted to ban products such as plastic bags and polystyrene foam food containers.
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Dart says that critics of polystyrene are ignoring the negative environmental impacts of other products, like many paper cups, which are derived from trees and can emit greenhouse gases as they degrade in landfills.
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I let out a giggle of surprised delight when he comes back five minutes later with so much milky, apricot-colored liquid that I have to take the leftovers home in a tall polystyrene cup.
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During the floods, his daily commute to work involved descending the steps, hopping onto a raft made of wood planks and polystyrene wrapped in plastic, and paddling for five minutes, out of the flood zone.
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Despite all of these good intentions, Ms. Wayner wondered how much of the city's polystyrene was actually being recycled and questioned how large the market was for used foam beyond niche products like picture frames.
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"Polystyrene cannot be recycled like a lot of other products, so while that cup of coffee may be finished, the Styrofoam cup it was in is not," Mills said in a statement to CNN affiliate WMTW.
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"Proteins, such as meat and fish, come to us already packed from outside vendors, who use a layered combination of polystyrene and polypropylene," Sean Timberlake, senior content marketing manager at Sun Basket, told me via email.
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The polystyrene beads mixed in with the aluminum powder help to evenly coat the surface of the screen, allowing you to start with a clean surface every time, just by giving the toy a good shake.
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Pakistani artist Huma Bhabha's "Untitled" may be the most inscrutable of all the candidates; it combines brown cork and white polystyrene to form a highly textured figure that bears just slight indications of the human form.
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The European Parliament voted by 560 to 35 in favor of banning 10 single-use plastics including plates, balloon sticks, food and beverage containers made of expanded polystyrene and all products made of oxo-degradable plastic.
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Over the next few years, Disney will transition to refillable in-room amenities in hotels and on cruise ships, reduce the number of plastic shopping bags available at resorts and on cruises and eliminate polystyrene cups.
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KAJIADO, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Justus Opiyo lives in one of around 50 polystyrene houses in a new development in Kajiado County, southeast of Nairobi, and says it has a major advantage over his previous homes.
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Andrew Fasoli, a spokesman for the trade group, the American Chemistry Council, said that the solution to foam waste was not to ban the material, but to invest in advanced recycling technology capable of processing polystyrene.
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On a global scale, polystyrene is being churned out in the amount of 14 million metric tonnes each year—or 31 trillion pounds—making EPS foam one of the most pervasive forms of trash pollution on Earth.
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It's filled with polystyrene beads, which means that without a frame it probably feels more like plunking down on a bean bag chair instead of a sofa—but that's still a great place to take a nap.
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As states like New York, Maine and Maryland outlaw polystyrene foam, which can harm fish and other marine life, the company that helped spur a revolution in cups and clamshells is struggling to find a path forward.
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Even as the market for polystyrene shrinks, many environmental groups want to abolish foam entirely because if it ends up as litter, it can break down easily into small pieces, harming fish and animals that ingest it.
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That followed the closure of a maker of polystyrene coffee cups in Sydney and a brick and clay paver maker in Queensland, both of which partly blamed high gas prices, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said.
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As the scion of a Michigan family business, Dart Container, that has long dominated the polystyrene foam market (it also makes plastic Solo cups and other iconic food service products), Mr. Dart was born into a significant fortune.
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After moving to New York in 2014, he began experimenting with different photographic techniques, using a specialized printer that works in ultraviolet light to print on unorthodox surfaces like polystyrene and aluminum, laying down multiple layers of acrylic ink.
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Other items at the Naked House include a circular shampoo disc, equivalent to three normal plastic bottles of shampoo, thin soap "wash cards" that handily slip into wallets and potato starch balls that replace polystyrene foam for postal packaging.
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Chevron Phillips Chemical, one of the world's top petrochemical producers, would gain scale and expand its footprint through the acquisition of Nova Chemicals, whose expandable polystyrene and resins are used in a range of industries, from construction to packaging.
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"We put together a plan that even the City's recycler supported that would have removed all polystyrene foam, and not just foodservice articles, from the City's waste stream," said Michael Westerfield, Dart's director of recycling, in a statement dated April 30.
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A young perch that has ingested microplastic particles (image: Oona M. Lönnstedt)To learn how plastic might affect marine animals, a Swedish research team led by Oona M. Lönnstedt exposed fish larvae to varying concentrations of microplastic (namely polystyrene) in aquariums.
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The company evacuated remaining workers on Tuesday, and Harris County ordered the evacuation of residents in a 1.5-mile(2.4-km) radius of the plant that makes organic peroxides used in the production of plastic resins, polystyrene, paints and other products.
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Each of Lamb's designs became an experiment in technique, whether it was learning how to use a hot wire cutter to saw out shapes from blocks of polystyrene foam or wrestling with Delaware bluestone boulders in an upstate New York quarry.
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The bill, which was signed into law on Tuesday and goes into effect in January 2021, prohibits convenience stores, restaurants, grocery stores, farm stands, and coffee shops from using containers made of polystyrene, which is more commonly referred to as Styrofoam.
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Congreave had just been hired, while Philippakis was cheekily returning to a scene of a crime: He'd been fired a few weeks earlier for incinerating the shop's mascot, a polystyrene toy cow, in a toaster oven, to impress a girl.
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The new study demonstrated that sunlight does even more, breaking down polystyrene into basic chemical units of organic carbon, which dissolves in seawater, and trace amounts of carbon dioxide, at levels far too low to play a role in climate change.
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San Diego recently decided to suspend enforcement of its polystyrene ban in the face of a lawsuit by Dart and a restaurant trade group, which argued the city should have conducted a detailed environmental impact study before enacting the law.
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This is the gear Wirecutter's travel team packs when heading to an all-inclusive resort: All-inclusives often serve drinks in polystyrene cups — pouring yours into an insulated tumbler will keep it cold and help you keep track of it, too.
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It's what's left when the waters recede and you have things that are only half usable or not at all: glass jars, old shells, broken ceramics, a baby blue polystyrene cushion, telephone wires, a rope that's unraveling, branches, dead flowers, more shells.
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According to Biotrem, 1 kg of wheat bran products generates in total — considering the whole wheat cultivation process, transportation, processing and utilization — around 1.3 kg of CO2; 1 kg of polystyrene disposable plates or cups generates in total around 8.5 kg of CO0003.
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See her recommendation from last November that the best way to sneak food into a movie theater is to sveltely stick a polystyrene bowl filled with snacks of your choosing inside your belly, giving onlookers the false impression that you are with child.
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Garry Noland's work looks like small, indifferent artifacts that might be found in a refuse pile at the local pottery studio, while Peggy Noland's crudely carved polystyrene characters and cityscapes felt more aesthetically coherent — a story of a couple navigating urban terrain.
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The team from the University of Reading in England and Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, inserted two minuscule pieces of polystyrene, each weighing just over one gram per cubic centimeter, into young mosquitoes and observed the insects throughout their life cycles.
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BRUSSELS, Aug 29 (Reuters) - The following are mergers under review by the European Commission and a brief guide to the EU merger process: — Polish chemicals company Synthos to acquire Swiss-based chemicals group Ineos' expandable polystyrene business INEOS Styrenics (notified July 25/deadline Aug.
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All around are more delicately balanced still life piles, of materials he's considering for projects: black polystyrene with milky-white resin topped with a tiny cube of vivid blue sodalite and smooth slabs of jade onyx, resting against a block of rough blue-green concrete.
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He has even given away some of his products, like when he dumped 500 polystyrene chairs in Trafalgar Square during the 2006 London Design Festival in partnership with a packaging association, before copper-plating eight of them in a pricey limited edition the next year.
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That unassuming 18-ounce chalice of moulded crimson polystyrene appears perched on every nightclub bar top, littered across the lawns of every outdoor music festival, stacked in every suburban kitchen cupboard, clenched in the firm fists of every polo-shirted undergraduate and sweating, yawping fraternity brother.
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He and his colleagues put tiny samples of polystyrene—which, like methane, is made of carbon and hydrogen—in front of a giant X-ray laser at the National Accelerator Laboratory, near Stanford University in California, in order to squeeze and heat it at the same time.
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"I was angry, but I knew I was just a small businesswoman," Ms. Leung, 63, said of the wastepaper restrictions as she picked through cardboard, polystyrene and soda cans in a rat-infested alley in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong on a recent morning.
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And while it's believed that expanded polystyrene and other extruded foam products will take about a million years to decompose, to use them as a source of forms doesn't necessarily implicate heavy industry any more than casting sculpture in bronze is a critique of foundry methods.
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Hospitals, food distributors and state-funded meals-on-wheels programs are exempt from having to eliminate the polystyrene containers, per the AP. Connecticut, Maryland, Oregon and Vermont have similar bans in the works, and individual communities like Berkeley, California, have passed bans, some going back to the 1980s.
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The kitchen counter that opens onto the main room is lined with polystyrene stools by Lamb, and a silver cloud by Federico Uribe, a Colombian artist they represent, hangs on the wall by a window; upon closer inspection, you notice it's composed of thousands of interlocking safety pins.
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Ikea isn't the first company to incorporate mycelium packaging—Dell's been using it for servers for a few years—but given the amount of flat-pack furniture I buy alone, this move should help put a dent in polystyrene consumption, and lead the way for more eco-friendly packaging. [Telegraph]
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It had polystyrene panels covered in flame-retardant white paint on the walls and ceiling and was just big enough to hold the monitoring and communications equipment, including a giant gauge that measured radiation in kilopascals and a two-way land line "teletalk" system, which works sort of like an old-fashioned speakerphone.
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For reasons best known to himself, Bowlby orders a box of papdi chaat to take away, which is how we find ourselves, sitting on a bench outside the Dominion Centre and Library, spooning chickpeas into the hard puri shells, before dunking them in the delicious, pond-coloured tamarind sauce held in a polystyrene cup.
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And their innate or subtly altered hues — the pastel blues and pinks of cobalt chloride, the lustrous silver of reflective powder on straw, the pale grays of polystyrene balls and kaolin, and the countless shades of white, from the icy brightness of glass fiber to the gamy ivory of rabbit fur — are rich and absorbing.
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Young Fish Get Hooked on Plastic MicrobeadsEuropean researchers have discovered that larval fish love to gobble-up plastic microbeads, which…Read more ReadIn the 2016 study, Lönnstedt and Eklöv demonstrated that fish exposed to high concentrations of microplastic particles (tiny beads of polystyrene) exhibit altered behaviors and stunted growth, making them more susceptible to predators.
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A team led by Dominik Kraus, a physicist at the German research laboratory Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, used the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) and the Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) instrument to put samples of polystyrene, a hydrocarbon-based plastic, under similar stresses to those found in the interiors of large ice gas planets.
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In the midst of the '200s' work-and-sweat fixation, William E. Geist of the New York Times headed to a La-Z-Boy showroom before the New York City Marathon to talk to customers who found runners "wacky" and planned to spend the day reaching into a polystyrene cooler for a cold beer.
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Again and again, we return to a heartbreaking image of him building a model of a lunar settlement—which we learn, of course, took 14 years and about 22,000 individual polystyrene pieces—in which he embeds, below ground, a tiny family, his own, huddled together, cozy and protected from all the outside terrors, present and historical.
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To try and satiate the Lyle's head chef's quest for the perfect pea—that sweet bursting green orb that seems so everyday but actually proves so elusive—I find myself climbing into a car, at 9 AM, among the pigeons and polystyrene of Shoreditch, to drive 127 miles to a vegetable farm somewhere below the Malvern Hills.
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For instance, Moroccan artist Fatiha Zemmouri's gigantic faux rock — made from polystyrene and plaster — that's wedged between two solid stone walls is highly credible (and strongly reminiscent of Michael Heizer's "Levitated Mass" [2012]); one can't help but be in awe of its ostensible power and destructibility, especially when viewing it in the long, narrow corridor of its current setting.
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Unlike the avant-gardists of the last century, eager to lay waste to the past, Ms. Harrison treats masterpieces and mass media alike as simply building blocks, chosen for their personal significance and reworked at will; "Bears Ears," a wild clump of mauve polystyrene, is pierced with a USB flash drive loaded with Harun Farocki's films.
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This farm, a rolling 1,200 acres of scattered fields, with the blue points of the Malvern Hills rising up on the horizon, is fairly typical of British vegetable growers—harnessed to the whims of the supermarkets, pulling up baby veg to vacuum-pack into polystyrene trays, throwing away as much as they keep because it doesn't reach the specific aesthetics of Waitrose, Tesco, Sainsbury's, and the rest.
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But he also loves a winking flourish that gently sends up Western associations of Asian culture while celebrating his roots: His show notes are printed on papers that mimic noodle-bar menus; orders from his online store arrive packaged in polystyrene takeout boxes; and he named his label's most popular style — a sheer, acid-washed turtleneck in multicolor tie-dye — the Hot Wok Top.
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The key to his work is a quote from his manifesto, "Toward an Organic Painting," which Hoptman uses to open her contribution to the catalogue: "The picture is the space in which we are free to reinvent over and over again the art of painting…" In the second-floor galleries at Hauser & Wirth, the Materials portion of the exhibition is divided into sections based on the elements Manzoni used for the works: raw canvas, gravel and pebbles, cotton wool, natural and synthetic fiber, polystyrene, wood, plush, brown-paper packages with red wax seals, rabbit skin, straw, and bread.
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