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	Plastic Bags, Poly Bags, Trash Bags, Zipper Bags by Bradley's plastic bag manufacturing
		Our plastic bags are made from prime grades of resin.
		We carry a large selection of plastic bags in stock sizes, but our strength lies in our manufacturing capabilities.
		We are able to make plastic bags to your specifications.
	www.bradleybag.com (157 words)

	No Bags, Thanks! - Features - The Lab - Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Gateway to Science
		In fact, plastic bags in drains were identified as major factors in the severe flooding in Bangladesh in 1988 and 1998.
		Plastic bags are made from ethylene, a gas that is produced as a by-product of oil, gas and coal production.
		Plastics and Chemicals Industries Association is an organisation which is central to the political and regulatory process for the plastics and chemicals industries; is valued and trusted by the community; and membership of which is a commecial imperative for all companies manufacturing, converting or trading chemical and plastic products.
	www.abc.net.au /science/features/bags/default.htm (2045 words)

	plastic bag tax
		Secondly, plastic carrier bags are not a significant component of litter in the UK, studies have shown that bags probably make up less than 1% of litter, and that cigarette butts are by far the highest proportion of litter.
		Plastic bags are useful and provide a hygienic, odourless, waterproof, robust and convenient way of carrying goods.
		Because of their strength and durability plastics bags can be re-used time and time again, either for a similar purpose or a wide range of other uses.
	www.bpf.co.uk /bpfissues/plastic_bag_tax.cfm (504 words)

	PLASTIC BAG OVERHEAT SYNDROME (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Although plastic bag flotsam is a known problem, the occurrence reports indicating high speed operation immediately prior to the overheat are inconsistent with the design criteria of the outdrive housing.
		Because a bag had been caught on the drive a field decision was made to improvise the catching of a bag on the drive in order to determine if changes in operational speed might cause a caught bag to be pulled off the drive.
		Originally we intended to tape the bag to the outdrive but it was decided that the adhesion of the tape to the drive and the bag might obscure the result by artificially holding the bag to the drive.
	www.daviscoltd.com /Public/Engineering/documents/plastic_bag_overheat_syndrome.htm (2075 words)

	Slitted plastic bag capable of holding flat, awkward objects - Patent 5676467
		A plastic bag is disclosed of the type to hold flat or awkward shaped objects, which is constructed of a top, a bottom, a first and second end, and two sides.
		Plastic bags have become very popular in supermarkets and stores due to their light weight, strength and easy disposability.
		It is an object of the present invention to overcome the disadvantages of prior art plastic bags of the type described.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /5676467.html (2644 words)

	Dual compartment plastic bag - Patent 20050111764
		Plastic bags provide a reasonably good means for minimizing oxygen flow to bacteria, helping to keep food in a nearly airless environment that reduces bacteria growth.
		The bag is not sealable, nor is there any division between these compartments, but the shape allows a consumer to place larger produce in the upper section of the bag and smaller produce in the bottom section of the same bag.
		The seals for plastic bags have consisted of two strips, one along each side of the bag opening, capable of being squeezed together either manually or by a slider moving over both strips from one end along their lengths to the other end.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /20050111764.html (2054 words)

	Plastic Bags - Plastic Bag Manufacturers - Poly Bags - Merchandise Bags
		Plastic bags remain a popular choice for packaging because of the advantages to manufacturers and consumers, which include flexibility, durability and insulation.
		Plastic bag manufacturers create plastic bags from plastic resins through polymerization, the process in which a chemical reaction links together monomers to form a polymer.
		Poly bags are bags derived from polyethylene or polypropylene, although this term usually refers to polyethylene bags.
	www.iqsdirectory.com /plastic-bags (2628 words)

	Welcome to SPI's Film and Bag Federation
		The Film and Bag Federation (FBF) is a business unit of the Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. (SPI) that actively promotes the growth of the plastic film and bag industry.
		FBF membership includes companies that are in the plastic bag segment of the industry as well as those in the film sector.
		FBF has collaborated with the Progressive Bag Alliance and two California retail associations on a plastic bag recycling initiative called “Bring It Back.” The initiative is aimed at meeting a state mandate for large stores to provide at-store recycling programs by July 1, as well as educational programs.
	www.plasticbag.com (272 words)

	NRDC: OnEarth Magazine, Summer 2003 - It's Not My Bag, Baby!
		Though plastic bags take up less than four percent of all landfill space (they're easily compressed), estimates on how long they take to decompose range from a hundred years to a thousand, despite what the bag boys at my local supermarket think.
		True, paper bags hold between two and three times as much as plastic ones, but when all the numbers are crunched, supermarkets still save by using plastic when you factor in all those "single-bag" orders, in which a customer's entire purchase fits into a single sack, whether it's paper or plastic.
		Most of our paper grocery bags originate in one of two places: Canada, where 90 percent of the timber is harvested from old, biologically rich forests, or the southeastern United States, where timber companies are rapidly replacing the region's last native woodlands with monocultural tree plantations that have as little biodiversity as corn fields.
	www.nrdc.org /onearth/03sum/bag.asp (1701 words)

	Reusable Bags - Facts and figures regarding the true cost of plastic bags
		Plastic bags don’t biodegrade, they photodegrade—breaking down into smaller and smaller toxic bits contaminating soil and waterways and entering the food web when animals accidentally ingest.
		Windblown plastic bags are so prevalent in Africa that a cottage industry has sprung up harvesting bags and using them to weave hats, and even bags.
		Plastic bags are among the 12 items of debris most often found in coastal cleanups, according to the nonprofit Center for Marine Conservation.
	www.reusablebags.com /facts.php (485 words)

	Marlo's Crochet Corner
		I have noticed that my hook has numerous stains of dye on it from the bags, also this is hard on the hook so you don't want to use your good Brittany hooks while crocheting with plastic bags :-)
		Round 6-7 ch 1, with yellow bags, hdc in each st around, join with a sl st to 1st hdc, cut yellow bags, at end of round 7 pick up the dropped white bags
		Round 11- 13 - ch 1, with blue bags, hdc in each st around, join with a sl st to 1st hdc, cut blue bags, at end of round 13, pick up the dropped white bags
	www.marloscrochetcorner.com /Plastic%20Bag%20tote.html (432 words)

	Reusable Bags - Africa
		Plastic waste is the most visible and a major concern because it has environmental implications and there is need for us to manage the problem, he said.
		He said that the plastic bag manufacturing industry, which had taken a huge knock resulting in the closure of businesses and the loss of more than 500 jobs, was slowly starting to recover.
		The bulk of the cargo was 2 tons of small, thin, transparent plastic bags, packed in large plastic fiber sacks, which split open, allowing the contents to spread.
	www.reusablebags.com /news.php?id=17 (1581 words)

	Australian Recycled Plastic Bag Art by John Dahlsen
		I developed new works in 2003 using recycled plastic bags as the primary medium, “Blue River” was one of these works using this medium.
		I imagine these plastic bags, which mostly have a lifespan of many years, are in fact on the verge of extinction, as it is only a matter of time before governments impose such strict deterrents to people using them that they become a thing of the past.
		As a point of discussion, the Irish Government imposed a 10 cent levy on the use of these bags some years ago and saw the consumption of this product decrease by approximately 90% within a year, a reduction of many billions of plastic bags per year!
	www.johndahlsen.com /thumbs/plastic_bags.html (313 words)

	Are Plastic Grocery Bags Sacking the Environment? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Plastic bags are so cheap to produce, sturdy, plentiful, easy to carry and store that they have captured at least 80 percent of the grocery and convenience store market since they were introduced a quarter century ago, according to the Arlington, Virginia-based American Plastics Council.
		Laurie Kusek, a spokeswoman for the American Plastics Council, said the industry works with its U.S. retail customers to encourage recycling of plastic bags, which are in high demand from companies such as Trex in Winchester, Virginia, for use in building materials.
		Compared to paper grocery bags, plastic grocery bags consume 40 percent less energy, generate 80 percent less solid waste, produce 70 percent fewer atmospheric emissions, and release up to 94 percent fewer waterborne wastes, according to the federation.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2003/09/0902_030902_plasticbags.html (667 words)

	Plastic Bag
		Plastic Bag record label, Mbari, to counteract the lack of opportunities to record and document the music of BAG and other styles.
		As BAG continued to work in the fl present, and to bring together many art forms into a unifying experience." Many of these discussions we Plastic Bag that the inner city of St. Louis in the community.
		with its racial and economic diversity, small-scale design, and its integration of Plastic Bag and drama, it Plastic Bag many of the commercial marginalization of jazz was due to repression by reactionary police agencies through the streets of New York blasting the free and avant-garde tradition of fl music in St. Louis's fl musicians.
	www.url4.net /3DCCBC (497 words)

	Film and Bag Federation Environmental Issues (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Every time you reuse a plastic bag you double the environmental savings: you save the bag you reused from going to a landfill, and you save a new one from needing to be used.
		Plastic bags keep dust away when storing off-season shoes.
		Put a plastic bag on a stadium seat at a band competition when it is raining.
	www.plasticbag.com /environmental/reuse.html (511 words)

	Plastic Bag Handbag - Take your recycle plastic bag and flatten it out on a clean, flat surface. Fold it in half ...
		Plastic Bag Handbag - Take your recycle plastic bag and flatten it out on a clean, flat surface.
		Take a ruler and starting at the bottom of the bag, mark off once inch markings on both sides of the ruler.
		Please note that the purpose of this project is to use the plastic bags that accumulate around the house from shopping.
	www.knitting-crochet.com /crochet/plabag.html (658 words)

	Plastic bag usage drops - Science - www.theage.com.au
		Shoppers at Australia's big supermarkets have cut the number of plastic bags they use by half a billion in the past 18 months, but Australians are still only recycling 5 per cent of their bags.
		Association policy adviser Melanie Hubbard said big retailers were on track to meet the target of reducing bags by 25 per cent at the end of this year.
		The audit was the first since the association agreed to a voluntary code to reduce bags, set by federal and state environment ministers in October last year.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/07/28/1090694027439.html?from=storylhs (199 words)

	Plastic bag obsession - Opinion
		In the first year the tax was in effect, the number of distributed bags dropped by 95 percent, and millions of dollars have been generated by the tax for environmental clean-up.
		Crude oil and other petrochemicals destined for plastic bag nirvana are transformed into polymers which are then heated, shaped, cooled, flattened, sealed, punched and printed on.
		The proposal's strongest opponent is the American Plastics Council, whose primary mantra is eerily similar to the gun lobby: plastic bags don't hurt the environment, plastic-bag-toting people do.
	media.www.thelantern.com /media/storage/paper333/news/2005/10/31/Opinion/Plastic.Bag.Obsession-1038761.shtml (691 words)

	Plastic bag - Plastic bag manufacturer - Plastic bag company - KLAIST (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Klaist is the plastic bag manufacturer that will satisfy all your necessities.
		Our plastic and paper bags are original, colourful, innovative, new and modern.
		Klaist is the paper and plastic bag manufacturer you are looking for to enlighten the trade mark of your company.
	www.klaist.it /shopping-bag/plastic-bag.html (199 words)

	Urban Dictionary: lung
		The lung is primarily made of a slightly adjusted two-litre soda bottle and a plastic bag, and gives a good excuse to look cool by saying lung 'bung' instead of lung bong.
		Usually a lung is made from a plastic bottle 2lt or larger with the bottom cut off and a plastic bag taped taped to the bottom of the bottle in its place.
		Because of the the amount of smoke inside the bag is very large the user has to breath in very deeply to empty the bag in one go.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=lung (743 words)

	Munich Airport- Standard pages - FAQ - New regulations for hand luggage (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The plastic bag must be presented separately from your hand luggage at the security control.
		To accelerate the process at the security check, they are advised to keep the bag in which they are carrying their liquids separate from their hand luggage.
		When transferring to a connecting flight within the EU, liquids taken on a flight outside the EU must be in the permitted pack sizes and carried in a transparent, re-sealable plastic bag (with a maximum capacity of 1 liter).
	www.munich-airport.de /EN/Areas/StandardSeiten/FAQ_Handgepaeck/index.html (1254 words)

	Pacy Crochets Frugal
		Don't be shy, ask them for some, they usually don't have a problem with giving you some when you explain their going to be used for a recycle project.
		This is a great way to increase your color stock of plastic bags, I found lots of bags from stores I don't frequent.
		Outdoor holiday decorations: Crochet an angel out of white bags, the plastic holds the shape and it will look great topping that evergreen tree out in your yard.
	members.tripod.com /pacycrochets/frugal (267 words)

	IKEA \| press release - plastic bag campaign
		IKEA UK will reduce the cost of the famous reusable Big Blue Bag at the same time as starting to introduce a charge for carrier bags.This is because we want to discourage customers from one-off use of carrier bags, and help customers make an environmentally friendly choice.
		Most of these bags never get a second use they get thrown straight in the rubbish bin and have a high social and financial cost attached to them.
		Community Forests’ task is to deliver a comprehensive package of urban, economic and social regeneration, creating high-quality environments for millions of people by revitalizing derelict land providing new opportunities for leisure, recreation and cultural activities enhancing biodiversity and supporting education, healthy living and social and economic development.
	www.ikea.com /ms/en_GB/about_ikea/press_room/press_release/national/plastic_bag_campaign.html (596 words)

	Plastic Bag Rugs
		I was first inspired to make rugs from plastic bags after seeing bags caught in branches of trees along the road...
		The large bag on the lower right is from the Brown County Recycle Center.
		It's about 15 pounds of plastic bags that residents have turned in to them for recycling and they, in turn, have given to me for reuse as rugs.
	www.homesteadweaver.com /plasticbagrugs.htm (308 words)

	Children Still Suffocating with Plastic Bags (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The plastic bag could block nose and mouth and prevent breathing.
		Plastic garbage bag (filled with clothes) fell over victim's face and mouth while victim was on adult bed.
		Never put children to sleep on or near plastic bags.
	www.cpsc.gov /cpscpub/pubs/5064.html (191 words)

	TSA: Permitted and Prohibited Items
		All liquids, gels and aerosols must be placed in a single, quart-size, zip-top, clear plastic bag.
		Gallon size bags or bags that are not zip-top such as fold-over sandwich bags are not allowed.
		Each traveler must remove their quart-sized plastic, zip-top bag from their carry-on and place it in a bin or on the conveyor belt for X-ray screening.
	www.tsa.gov /travelers/airtravel/prohibited/permitted-prohibited-items.shtm (2005 words)

	Planet Ark
		A person's use of a plastic check-out bag can be counted in minutes - however long it takes to get groceries from the shops to their homes.
		Combine the growing number of plastic bags used every year with the time it takes for them to break down and you have a major environmental problem.
		In the marine environment, plastic bag litter is lethal, killing thousands of whales, turtles and other sea life every year.
	www.planetark.com /campaignspage.cfm/newsid/7/story.htm (317 words)

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