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Connellsville Daily Courier, 4.19.06
...One notable example has been the development of rot-proof plastics. Now we can have our containers and keep them too. Plastic bags and Styrofoam cups litter our landscape because they will not rot. How can we get rid of them?
When we think that an invention is simply too clever, we may be right...
As for plastic bags, my wife and I carry our own grocery bags, but we can scarcely stop the store clerks from stuffing our groceries into plastic bags...
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/dailycourier/guestcolumn/s_436102
IPP Media, 4.8.06
Toxic components inhaled through smoke from burning plastic materials may cause hormonal imbalance and sex behavioural orientation of a new born
http://www.ippmedia.com/ipp/guardian/2006/04/08/63819.html
The National - Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 3.1.05
Despite its great importance, environment issues affecting PNG have taken the back burner with successive national governments giving very low priority.
Take the issue of plastic shopping bags for example.
Plastic bags and other plastic products are non-biodegradable, meaning such products will not decay, rot or broken down through the natural degradation.
Simply, because plastic products cannot be broken down to soil form such products remain wherever they are dumped and pose serious environment problems.
A local chemical company has been promoting the use of biodegradable plastic bags through media advertisements.
Finally, after a long while the government has moved to ban plastic bags�
http://www.thenational.com.pg/0131/w1.htm
The National - Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 2.1.05
...Plastic bags, once seen as a triumphant example of modern technology, pose a dramatic threat to the survival of our environment and the fragile eco-systems...
http://www.thenational.com.pg/1230/editorial1.htm
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