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Space Age Plastic
What can resist applications of bio washing flakes, soda crystals, grease-stripper, scouring powder, toothpaste, drain cleaner and pure unadulterated bleach? The stains on plastic garden chairs of course.
I scrubbed with steel wool. I scraped with a knife. I spent two fruitless hours and the stains wouldn’t shift.
What are these chairs made from? Some technology [...]
Where are the Plastic Bags of Yesteryear
The Chinese will ban free plastic bags by June, but the Australian Government wants all of ours gone entirely by December of this year. Finito. Apparently there are some 5 billion of these bags floating around the place, getting into landfill, choking our wildlife, and turning up on our beaches when you least expect [...]
Water in Bottles
I think it’s time we started taking notice of plastic bottles
The consumption of bottled water has grown in the past 15 years from less than a million bottles a year to more than a billion per annum.
It is estimated that about one-fifth of these bottles are thrown away with the top screwed tightly down and [...]
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