Paper or cloth? (Updates).Governments as far-flung as Taiwan and Australia are turning the ideal of zero waste (see "Zero Waste," cover story, March/April 2001) into reality for plastics. Taiwan introduced a new law in January to ban in-store distribution of plastic bags and eating utensils This is a list of eating and serving utensils.
n. 1. A decrease; a curtailment: "The political effects of food cutbacks could be devastating" New York Times. 2. , anticipates layoffs. England hopes to institute a similar "bag ban" after witnessing the success of Ireland's bag tax, which reduced plastic bag use by 90 percent in just five months. Australia, a consumer of nearly seven billion bags a year, announced plans to halve halve tr.v. halved, halv·ing, halves 1. To divide (something) into two equal portions or parts. 2. To lessen or reduce by half: halved the recipe to serve two. 3. usage by 2004. Major Australian supermarket chains have cut down consumption in anticipation of the laws, and a tourist township in Tasmania has banned disposable sacks altogether--arming shoppers with sturdy sturdy neurological disease in sheep caused by the pressure of a Taenia multiceps metacestode. Called also gid. calico calico, plain weave cotton fabric in one or more colors. Calico, named for Calicut, India, where the fabric originated, was mentioned by historians before the Christian era and praised by early travelers for its fine texture and beautiful colors. carriers instead. CONTACT: International Plastics Task Force, (510)548-2220 x233, www.ecologycenter.org. |
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