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Nonbiodegradable
Substance that cannot be broken down in the environment by natural processess. See biodegradable. (source: EPA) Marin Independent-Journal,...(IJ photo/Jeff Vendsel) The City Council this week unanimously approved a ban on containers made from polystyrene foam, a nonbiodegradable product, Tobacco: An Environmental and Occupational Drag - Oct 3, 2007 Utne Reader OnlineAccording to the WHO, 954 million kilograms of filters -- made of thousands nonbiodegradable plastic fibers -- were manufactured in 1998 alone, COUNTY IN BRIEF - Sep 28, 2007 Maui News,Earlier this year, Maui County Council Member Mike Molina proposed banning nonbiodegradable plastic bags in favor of more environmentally friendly Just Think: Our town officials don't seem very smart sometimes - Sep 26, 2007 Winston-Salem Journal,Instead, the books are tossed out on our front lawn encased in nonbiodegradable plastic bags. So rather than a recycling fee, the Kernersville Board of Diplo and Switch Bring Global Sounds to San Francisco's Mezzanine - Sep 24, 2007 Daily Californian,Not only did he rock it, he packed it, sealed, put it in a box with those little nonbiodegradable Styrofoam strips and sent it on a transnational journey Full of crocs - Oct 14, 2007 Baltimore Sun,As he anxiously awaits the end to what he hopes is a fad, he worries what will become of all the seemingly nonbiodegradable castoffs. PUT THE EARTH ON YOUR LIST: Think green at the grocery to make ... - Oct 6, 2007 Detroit Free Press,Opponents of plastic bags are piling up almost as rapidly as the nonbiodegradable totes themselves. A site called Reusablebags.com estimates the average The Heart of Texas - Sep 30, 2007 New Yorker,Last season, the show first aired on Tuesdays, where it had the misfortune of competing against ABC’s popular showcase for nonbiodegradable fabrics, Clean is nice, but let's make beaches welcoming - Sep 30, 2007 Boston Globe,Nonbiodegradable tampon applicators became the scourge of politicians, from Plymouth selectmen to legislators on Beacon Hill. Bills were filed. Freedom from Smoking clinic available - Oct 13, 2007 Times-West Virginian,By Mary Wade Burnside FAIRMONT — One Earth Day as Beverly Keener passed out fliers at Fairmont State University about not littering nonbiodegradable Ban Those Bags - Oct 10, 2007 Miami New Times,Every April, volunteers sweep 30 tons of garbage from the Biscayne Bay shoreline during Baynanza — and much of that is nonbiodegradable plastic. Crocheters Gone Wild - Oct 3, 2007 Chicago ReaderGreat Pacific Garbage Patch—roughly three million tons of trash, much of it nonbiodegradable plastic, trapped at the center of the North Pacific Gyre. Are we bottling out of going green? - Oct 1, 2007 The Argus.co.uk,Of all the incredible ideas mankind has had over the years, flying water around the world in nonbiodegradable plastic bottles and selling it at vastly Greening Up by Cutting Down on Plastic Bags - Aug 5, 2007 New York Times,Last month, New Haven considered a proposal, modeled on San Francisco’s, that would have banned nonbiodegradable plastic bags in supermarkets that gross INFOWORLD DAILY - Aug 1, 2007 InfoWorld,..."Instead of letting you use the same nonbiodegradable plastic container, most would rather have you toss it out and buy a new one. Isle plastic bags might be sacked - Jul 27, 2007 Maui News,...“I’ve heard a lot of concerns about plastic,� Molina said Thursday while discussing a bill he is drafting to prohibit use of nonbiodegradable plastic Don Henley to sing at Soboba Casino - Aug 9, 2007 Press-Enterprise (subscription),Henley is known for his environmentalism, so bringing in those nonbiodegradable Styrofoam cups is probably not a good idea. Plus, you can tell the kids that Eminent domain to be used in condo acquisition - Aug 4, 2007 Maui News,A bill to ban use of nonbiodegradable plastic grocery bags was referred to committee. Council Member Mike Molina introduced the bill, saying the use of Plastic bag law faces lawsuit - Aug 9, 2007 Alameda Times-Star,The new law — which goes into effect early next year — bans the use of nonbiodegradable plastic bags at retail stores that gross more than Oakland's Cardinal says rains have ended the dry spell - Aug 16, 2007 Manila Bulletin,Most of these come because of the denudation of our forests, the silting of our rivers, the clogging of our esteros and waterways with nonbiodegradable Maui bill would ban plastic bags - Jul 30, 2007 Honolulu Star-Bulletin,..."The time has come for the dependence on nonbiodegradable plastic bags to be replaced with more environmentally appropriate bags," Molina said last week in Washington County hotline proves people will report litter bugs - Aug 5, 2007 Kingsport Times News,...officials are specifically concerned with the mass dumpings of tires, construction debris and other nonbiodegradable items in remote areas of the county Paper or plastic? Neither, more shoppers say - Jul 21, 2007 Sioux Falls Argus Leader,According to a recent New York Times article, some US cities are starting to reject the use of nonbiodegradable plastic bags, and the trend of reusable bags Trash bag parades, contests - Aug 13, 2007 Houston Chronicle,Hold an annual "Art Bag Parade" where entrants decorate plastic bags with other nonbiodegradable objects, such as foam containers, nuclear waste or uncooked Fleurs du mal Time for Houston to cut plastic bag use. - Aug 11, 2007 Houston Chronicle,This March, San Francisco's board of supervisors attacked the plastic bag habit, banning large stores from using nonbiodegradable bags. Under the Sun - Aug 15, 2007 Honolulu Star-Bulletin,...long recommended that consumers bring reusable bags to the grocery store instead of lugging home milk and cereal in flimsy, nonbiodegradable carryalls. Let's bag those criticisms of plastic - Aug 3, 2007 Baltimore Sun,...for some municipalities -- the mayors of Los Angeles and San Francisco (which also has banned large retailers from using nonbiodegradable plastic bags) Paper, Plastic or Prada? - Aug 2, 2007 TIMESan Francisco this spring became the first US city to ban nonbiodegradable bags from large grocery stores and pharmacies, and similar legislation is being Satire: New eco-friendly packaging starts boom in guilt-free littering - Jul 24, 2007 CNNTo curb the new littering, the Sierra Club is now suggesting that all consumer packaging be coated with a toxic, nonbiodegradable polymer that would kill Green Team lets no trash go to waste - Jul 30, 2007 Glenwood Springs Post Independent,...the Carbondale Mountain Fair on Saturday, Green Team volunteer Kelly Nelson had only gathered a few inches of nonbiodegradable waste in her trash bin. Maui may ban plastic bags - Jul 27, 2007 Honolulu Advertiser,Under his proposal, businesses prohibited from providing customers with nonbiodegradable plastic bags at checkout would instead have to use compostable bags Just the thing to carry your conscience in - Jul 25, 2007 Worcester Telegram,San Francisco is the first American city to ban the nonbiodegradable bags. Later this year, first supermarkets and then large chain pharmacies there will Paper or Plastic? - Apr 11, 2007 Willamette Week,Made from nonbiodegradable polyethylene, the bags are hard to recycle and mostly end up in landfills. South Africa, Bangladesh, Taiwan and France have Sausalito heads toward banning Styrofoam - Apr 10, 2007 Marin Independent-Journal,The material from which those containers are made - polystyrene - is 20 percent petroleum and "basically nonbiodegradable," said Rich Fortmann of the city's This Week's Cover Story - Apr 12, 2007 LongIslandPress.com,The EPA estimates that US consumers throw away 100 billion plastic bags a year, and standard (nonbiodegradable) bags can take 1000 years to break down. For now, we're still just weird, not Berserkeley - Apr 7, 2007 OregonLive.com,...they fill up landfills and require too much petroleum to produce, the Board of Supervisors voted late last month to ban nonbiodegradable plastic bags. Nanny State, USA - Mar 30, 2007 ABC NewsReducing the number of nonbiodegradable plastic bags tangled in neighborhood streets and piling up in landfills for hundreds of years is a noble undertaking Seldom recycled, plastic grocery bags face bans in SF - Mar 28, 2007 Christian Science Monitor,...of traditional recycling, city leaders have approved a ban on nonbiodegradable plastic bags at supermarkets and large pharmacy checkout counters. Stop trashing the Bay - Mar 22, 2007 Contra Costa Times,...halting -- our dumping of cans, plastic bottles and other nonbiodegradable debris that end up befouling the San Francisco Bay and coastal waters. Paper or plastic? Neither - Apr 9, 2007 New Haven Register (subscription),...‰Then on March 27, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to eliminate the use of single-use, petroleum-based, nonbiodegradable, noncompostable PLASTIC BAGS Time up for bag-happy stores, users - Apr 2, 2007 The Japan Times,That follows a move in December by Paris to ban nonbiodegradable plastic bags some time this year. In Ireland, a 2002 tax imposed on the use of plastic Letter from a classmate - Mar 29, 2007 Manila Times,As a result, we have an endless problem of disposing nonbiodegradable materials such as plastic, we suffer from brownouts and we can’t pay our electric bill Happy birthday: Environmental group turns one - Mar 29, 2007 Lawrence Ledger,Sustainability can be achieved through myriad ways — a community that reduces its use of vehicles, avoids nonbiodegradable materials whenever possible, Art Review: Glass Center presents a dazzling array - Mar 27, 2007 Pittsburgh Post Gazette,The piece becomes a prodding reminder that such bottles once would have been made of recyclable glass instead of a nonbiodegradable product that swells ONE THING HE DOES RECYCLE IS HIS FIBS - Mar 24, 2007 Sunday Mirror,Worst of all, we found nonbiodegradable nappies, which can take up to 500 years to decompose. Mr Cameron hit back through his online "blog" and by using his Emeryville recycles ban on Styrofoam containers - Mar 23, 2007 Inside Bay Area,EMERYVILLE — Emeryville has joined a growing list of California cities to outlaw nonbiodegradable Styrofoam cups, plates and take-out food containers used That’s me going green in the dark - Mar 20, 2007 Times Online,The electric sucks from a fossily power station, the safety is made of steel and nonbiodegradable plastic that will end up on a landfill site, Threat Level: Killer Tadpole - Mar 21, 2007 Cleveland Scene Weekly,The Host is disgusting in some original and unforgettable ways, as when the monster vomits human bones and an indigestible (or nonbiodegradable) can of beer We need to stop trashing the Bay - Mar 21, 2007 The Argus,...plastic bottles and other nonbiodegradable debris that end up bobbing on or otherwise befouling the San Francisco Bay and coastal waters. Aeration Basin Air Flow Monitoring - Mar 19, 2007 Water Online (press release),Micro-organisms decompose the biologically degradable organics in the wastewater and flocculate into a mass that settles along with the nonbiodegradable Expand bottle law - Mar 5, 2007 Rochester Democrat and Chronicle,More bottles mean less litter, and less nonbiodegradable items crowding landfills. It's thought that updating the bill would ensure that 2 billion Improving Wastewater Treatment With Air Flow Instrumentation - Feb 21, 2007 Water Online (press release),Eventually, over a period of time, they flocculate into a mass with the nonbiodegradable solids that settle to the bottom of the basin. Diss And Dat - Feb 18, 2007 Television Week,The Insider is beyond crabby and the negativity is both hard to control-think Radioactive Guy on "Heroes"-and nonbiodegradable. So don't stand too close to Diapers next step in men’s quest for speed - Feb 18, 2007 Lawrence Journal World,Why do you think landfills are overflowing with nonbiodegradable Pampers? Because moms can’t bear the thought of their precious little babies’ behinds They are not fit to write our laws - Mar 10, 2007 Manila Times,This nonbiodegradable nonsense has since been made the stuff of their sloganeering. Some candidates have repeated it, without realizing that in so doing, Toxic Tadpole Attacks! - Mar 7, 2007 Seattle Weekly,The Host is disgusting in some original and unforgettable ways, as when the monster vomits out human bones and an indigestible (or nonbiodegradable) can of Drip-drip-drip of a revolution - Feb 24, 2007 Times Online,But when Kentucky Fried Chicken starts advertising a bucket of supper with disposable plates and nonbiodegradable plastic cutlery so you don’t have to get To change the world, change your thinking - Feb 25, 2007 Orlando Sentinel,Directly or indirectly, it also involves many substances that, in finished form or via manufacturing processes, are toxic, nonbiodegradable, Waving Goodbye - Feb 23, 2007 Guelph Tribune,The recently opened composting facility in Hamilton didn't want to take Guelph's organic waste for the next 18 months because it's in nonbiodegradable green Your letters: East county - Feb 21, 2007 Ventura County Star (subscription),Even slight contamination of the 200000 tons of green waste used every year in Ventura County adds up to many tons of nonbiodegradable trash, which leaves a I'm with Cupid and, like many, feeling a bit idiotic - Feb 13, 2007 Houston Chronicle,As for the shiny gems, just remember this: A diamond may be the gift of a lifetime, but Mylar balloons are nonbiodegradable. What says "forever" better than Manufacturer supplies rubber across sub-Saharan Africa - Feb 15, 2007 Engineering News (press release),...on environmental engineering requires that products with a finite lifespan be recycled or re-engineered to try and limit nonbiodegradable scrap. Terra Firma - Feb 23, 2007 Los Angeles Daily News,...(Rowell acknowledged that the use of nonbiodegradable foam rather than the traditional layers of packed earth and gravel was a compromise, Calabasas Styrofoam decision put on hold - Dec 14, 2006 Agoura Hills Acorn,...and to protect wildlife and the environment,� as well as “to eliminate the use of packaging . . . that is nonbiodegradable, nonrecyclable, An environmentalist's plea for cheery Christmas lights - Dec 11, 2006 Kennebec Journal,Toys with useful lives of two to four hours, after which they became nonbiodegradable trash! Refined sugar in cookies and candies! Hip gifts fur critters - Dec 5, 2006 Seattle Times,In a home with two cats, a CatGenie eliminates about 300 pounds of mostly nonbiodegradable waste product from the trash dump each year. There's no ware like foam, so ban against its use rough on businesses - Nov 23, 2006 West County Times,It states that as compostable products become affordable, restaurants must phase out other nonbiodegradable products such as plastic containers. Yacht club receives new 47-year lease - Nov 22, 2006 Examiner.comThe board voted 10-0 in support of prohibiting the food service industry from using the nonbiodegradable material. POT ENFORCEMENT: In a 7-3 vote, Plymouth working on yard-waste contract with new company - Oct 11, 2006 Washington Daily News,Residents are also asked not to include any nonbiodegradable waste in yard waste because entire loads of waste could be rejected by landfill operators. News index | RSS | News Feed Advertisements: Organic Apparel from Patagonia | Insect-repelling clothing |
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