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  • Plastic bags, crisp packets, plastic bottles and soggy newspapers lie abundantly in the verges, or caught in trees and hedges.
  • Why pay 5p for a plastic bag when you can jazz up a plain canvas tote? Times, Sunday Times
  • Most everybody puts a plastic bag in the bathroom basket as a liner, so emptying is just a matter of lifting out the plastic bag and tying it up. Bugs and Wastebasket W.C.
  • We're goin' to need TP, baby wipes, plastic bags, battery powered lanterns, and buckets of batteries.
  • Among them was a small cuddly bunny wrapped in a plastic bag against the overnight rain.
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  • A dense garbage of cans and plastic bags float past. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sights like this, a whale beached off Cairns, found with six square metres of plastic in its body cavity, have caused outrage at the killing capacity of the plastic bag.
  • There, taped to the bottom, was a small plastic bag of amphetamines.
  • Dry-clean and encase cashmere and fur in plastic bags for summer
  • It makes life much easier for each large bag to have a small plastic bag on top, filled with yarns of shorter lengths, approximately 18 inches to 3 inches, than the large skeins and/or balls.
  • Tip the flour into a large plastic bag, add the cayenne pepper and salt and shake together. Times, Sunday Times
  • Tarnish, as with silver, can be prevented by storing your jewellery in resealable plastic bag together with a sachet of silica gel.
  • Plastic bags when filled with water resemble jellyfish, the turtle's staple diet.
  • Using their bullwhips, the cowboys aimed at various targets with remarkable accuracy, whipping newspapers and plastic bags from people's mouths or hands.
  • By definition, it's a messy job for the sorters, and anything in a plastic bag goes straight to landfill.
  • Do not throw rubbish onto the ground. Do not waste water. Use both sides of paper when you write. Stop using plastic bags for shopping. Make classrooms less noisy.
  • If you do not want to scent everything in your refrigerator, keep any ripe melons in a tightly closed plastic bag.
  • What's in the water that makes Bay Area foodies hell-bent on feeding the world safe & healthy food (carried in non-plastic bags handstitched by non-corporations)? Annie Spiegelman: Eating Green: An Interview with Helge Hellberg About the Rising Food Movement
  • Then after filling a plastic bag she popped the lot in the bin.
  • To maintain moisture, slip the whole flat or pot into a clear plastic bag after the initial watering.
  • Ethylene is a raw material for making plastic bags and food wrappings.
  • Slowly your plastic bag of odd socks swells. Times, Sunday Times
  • A proposal to introduce a levy on plastic bags will be introduced into Federal Parliament this week.
  • They were wrapped in two-ply airtight plastic bags and stored at - 20 degrees C. Before testing, each specimen was thawed for 24 hours at room temperature.
  • Work quickly or keep the cutting material in a plastic bag blown up like a balloon and sealed.
  • Environmental groups said a plastic bag levy would change attitudes to waste disposal across Scotland.
  • The storage of silage on the pad (either in a makeshift straw clamp, or in plastic bags) is an agricultural use and not development.
  • In the foreground, pre-cooked masa shells in plastic bags are ready to go back on the griddle and beome sopes with delicious fillings and toppings. Corn on the cob and bags of freshly cut corn kernels flank a pot of cooked nopalitos -- the nutritious pads of the prickly pear cactus. In the foreground, pre-cooked masa shells in plastic bags are ready to go back on the griddle and beome sopes with deli
  • The community is willing to support things like container deposits, banning lightweight plastic bags and the removal of plastic micro beads from soaps and shampoos.
  • There is nothing worse than a pouting that's been asleep all day in a plastic bag, or a mackerel that's been slipped down someone's gumboot.
  • The policeman asked me to blow into a plastic bag, ie in order to breathalyse me.
  • The deadly poison ricin was stored, with a blowgun and darts, in a plastic bag in the family room.
  • A nurse's aide gathered his belongings together, threw out a few unimportant scraps of paper, put the rest in a plastic bag.
  • Carry the cloths in a plastic bag in your backpack for a refreshing and stimulating energy boost.
  • Although you might think they are really tough because they feel hard, potatoes bruise easily and should be treated with care and kept somewhere cool and dark, out of the plastic bag.
  • He plucked a couple of plastic bags from the roll.
  • He pulled a pack of peanut butter cups from the plastic bag and set it down in front of the headstone.
  • Ten slips of paper were folded into a plastic bag, and they drew lots.
  • But, Jeez, we wouldn't want to bring Johnny back to Managua in a plastic bag. DESPERADOES
  • One of the puppies suffocated inside the plastic bag.
  • The best way of keeping it fresh is to put it in a perforated plastic bag and keep it in the crisper.
  • For his banana and olive oil ice cream he uses sous vide, which cooks food sealed in airtight plastic bags.
  • Surely it can't be too hard to take a plastic bag or two to clean up after their/your animal?
  • Small plastic bags of cold water are always on sale at bus/taxis garages in West Africa for a few bututs (1 Dalasi = 100 Bututs in Gambian currency).
  • To remove wrinkles, spritz the fabric with water, roll it up, and place it in a plastic bag for several hours.
  • Blood for transfusions is stored in small plastic bags.
  • He plucked a couple of plastic bags from the roll.
  • This plastic bag had then been placed on a plastic food tray, which had itself then been sealed inside more plastic wrapping. Times, Sunday Times
  • Common complimentary gifts include plastic bags, ballpoint pens, pencils, writing pads, water bottles and paper cups.
  • I take great pleasure in pricking each berry with a needle in several places then dropping them into a bottle with sugar and gin, but others like to freeze the sloes in a plastic bag then bash them hard with a hammer or rolling pin. Nigel Slater's classic sloe gin recipe
  • If you do not want to scent everything in your refrigerator, keep any ripe melons in a tightly closed plastic bag.
  • Talk about ephemera from the past … a recent eBay purchase arrived stored in this ancient looking plastic bag: 2008 February : Scrubbles.net
  • Put the rootball into a plastic bag; wrap it up tight. Times, Sunday Times
  • Just put your laundry in the plastic bag in the bath-room. I'll pick it up after I make the bed every morning.
  • Taped to the squib is a small plastic bag of fake blood. Melons Bursting in Air
  • I am irish and while i think the no plastic bag law has been greatly recieved, the problem is that many big stores still what you to be a walking advertisement, when you purchase something from their store. so what many of them offer (or rather hand you), is a high glossy paper bag. when you consider that a regular brown paper bag takes 15time more energy to produce (i acknowledge that this is only one stage of the lifecylce), however considering this production energy you can imagine the energy and enviromental costs of these high gloss/high print paper. my central point then i guess is: the tax levy on plastic bags may be good, however this paper bag adoption is tainted. it gives the irish consumers a get out of jail free card. tighter legislation needs to be inplaced before anyone gets a pat on the back. slainte KILL PLASTIC BAGS WITH TAXES: look to Ireland | Inhabitat
  • Anyway, once they tax us, perhaps we'll be bit more moderate about our plastic bag habit.
  • He may have spoken with a slight Liverpool accent and a slight stutter and was carrying a cream Reebok bag and a plastic bag.
  • It is a video of an empty plastic bag dancing in the street, blown here and there by the gusty winds of an approaching storm.
  • The number of plastic bags littering beaches has almost halved in the year since the 5p charge was introduced. Times, Sunday Times
  • Plastic bags are no good because they would melt.
  • Earlier in the day among the usual items of cans, bottles (usually glass, often broken) were used nappies and plastic bags of dog poo.
  • Not only are they generally stronger than plastic bags, but they are washable and can be used over and over again.
  • Overall, the response was favourable with many Waterford people believing that charging for plastic bags will significantly reduce the numbers used.
  • Many things pollute water, such as tires, trash, and plastic bags.
  • During the march, Santa Monica High students passed out free reusable bags courtesy of Heal the Bay, and their self-made flyers highlighting the problems of and solutions to single-use plastic bag consumption. Lisa Kaas Boyle: Youth Movement to Reduce Plastic Pollution
  • If you have limescale on your taps, an easy way to get it off is to soak a handful of tissue with white vinegar, pop it in a plastic bag and then fix it onto the tap with an elastic band so that the limescale is in the tissue.
  • We know we should be reducing our use of plastic bags and bottles but we rarely carry reusables with us. Charles Tsai: How Angry Birds Can Change the World
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  • Miguel leaned across and opened the glove compartment, pulling out his fat plastic bag of weed.
  • Moreover, the occupants of the truck dumped five plastic bags full of clothes, ski masks, gloves, and a wrapper from a pair of bolt cutters.
  • You can shop at the mall like a Valley Girl, but those plastic bags are grody to the max!
  • Wash them before packing into plastic bags or containers.
  • Reports suggest that he was found with a plastic bag and some tubing while in doping control.
  • As I walked toward the hospital's entrance — stomach heavy, dizzied with anxiety, plastic bag swinging at my side — I surprised myself by whispering: Bet he'll never eat the damn fruit. LAST CALL: A Memoir
  • If the fur is good skin him and freeze the hide in a plastic bag. What do you do with a coyote after you kill one?
  • Mail, keys, change, Peter's camera equipment, books, plastic bags, and all manner of other debris have a nasty habit of collecting on that coffee table.
  • Plastic bags filled with unmentionable contents; old shoes; broken toys; twisted bits of wire and metal; old mattresses with their innards spilling out; all lie tangled in a sludge of human waste.
  • V., a plastic bag of some clear solution held aloft by one of the paramedics.
  • On one occasion we even offered a plastic bag to the owner of a Labrador whose dog had messed in the field, and all we got was a lot of abusive language!
  • Overall, the response was favourable with many Waterford people believing that charging for plastic bags will significantly reduce the numbers used.
  • When they get to the pillbox they have to divide their purchases into three clear plastic bags for inspection.
  • To store, rinse, wrap in a paper towel and refrigerate in a plastic bag up to 4 days.
  • Like, twenty plastic bags filled with those cigarette filters.
  • The best solution is to carry a dark coloured plastic bag, into which you can put refuse, and which you can store in an outside pouch on your bergen.
  • Back in the early eighties, one of the maintenance employees asked if I knew how much it cost to line every wastebasket with a plastic bag: $1,200 a year.
  • In her hand was a dusty plastic baggie containing an ounce or so of some brown powder. TROPIC OF NIGHT
  • She was able to remove the plastic bag and swim to shore.
  • Will somebody who puts the doo in a plastic bag, then ties it to a tree or leaves it on the side of a path, explain the logic behind that to me?
  • Each plastic bag and drainage tile dropped in the coffin makes the world just that much more beautiful.
  • Anya Hindmarch "I'm not a plastic bag" bags sold out in seconds from a UK supermarket chain promotion. 35 posts from April 2007
  • Near the conference centre it is strung with wreaths and garlands of homemade flowers, created from plastic bags, paper plates and wrapping paper.
  • We finally make it to the park, loaves of stale bread spilling out of the plastic bags ready to nourish the ducks.
  • Nicole slid into the seat, plopping her plastic bag containing her now soaked jacket onto the floor board.
  • The Waterford News & Star asked a number of people while they did their grocery shopping what they thought of the government imposing a charge on plastic bags.
  • Put in the dough and cover with a damp towel or plastic wrap or place the bowl inside a plastic bag.
  • Do not throw rubbish onto the ground. Do not waste water. Use both sides of paper when you write. Stop using plastic bags for shopping. Make classrooms less noisy.
  • In my house there's a compost bin, a box for tins and bottles, a plastic container, a holder for plastic bags, and an old newspaper corner.
  • And I was just thinking that homelessness wasn't so bad when I came across an old man sleeping against a stash of plastic bags stuffed with refuse.
  • She reached into a small clutch purse, pulled out a plastic bag and threw up into it.
  • Garbage had to be sorted out - plastic bags, lids, bottle caps, etc.
  • The fortunate ones clutch tiny plastic bags of black sand, a pound of which counts as a windfall.
  • Keep your cameras packed in self-locking plastic bags that contain a large supply of desiccant (silica gel packets are available at most camera shops).
  • One nice thing about receiving home delivery of the Boston Globe is that our carrier inserts it into a handy plastic bag which can be used to pick up dog poop.
  • But that just means our parks are now full of special bins containing flimsy plastic bags packed with excrement.
  • Hot-bar and impulse welding processes are commonly used in the packaging industry to seal plastic bags and join thermoplastic films of 0.5 mm or less.
  • Cover with either a damp towel or plastic wrap, or put the bowl into a plastic bag.
  • But traders say they are slowly drifting back and drinking from bottles hidden in plastic bags.
  • A juvenile green turtle was found with a plastic bag wound tightly around its right flipper, cutting off blood flow, aquarium curator Willie Maritz said yesterday.
  • Discarded plastic bags uglify our public spaces, clog our most far-flung beaches. Times, Sunday Times
  • Detectives said that the body had been found in plastic bags which had been wrapped in a quilt cover.
  • There is a mat on the floor, a hammock, and a few boxes and plastic bags filled with clothes.
  • You might have a cool PDA and a wicked wallet, but if you're heading to work with a huge bulge in your pants and your lunch in a plastic bag, then you've got a lot to learn.
  • Archer Farms cereals are now sold in rounded "streamlined" cereal boxes without the need for an inner plastic bag holding the cereal. Target Archer Farms New Cereal Packaging
  • C-Note carefully pulls his pant leg down to conceal several plastic bags of peroxide that are taped to this leg.
  • The plastic bag contained all his worldly goods .
  • Their belongings were packed into plastic bags and the family was driven to Dublin by car.
  • Allow the drippings to cool some, pour into a large plastic bag and close.
  • Detectives found the loot in plastic bags hidden behind household junk and old furniture. The Sun
  • To make it easier for someone to pet-sit while you are gone, premix the food and put it in a sealed plastic bag marked for each day. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette stories
  • Dry them before you pack them into their containers or plastic bag and then put them in your luggage.
  • Plastic bags can choke animals and broken bottles can cut them.
  • A disgusting squelch echoed around the concrete enclosure as a plastic bag split open, revealing beneath the rotting fruit, an identical device.
  • She wore a great big rust-coloured jacket and in one hand she carried a large, bulging plastic bag.
  • When last summer I started bicycling to get around, I suddenly was confronted with the amazing amount of recyclable objects on every patch of green, in bushes, under trees, at parking lot corners, near trash cans, etc … Aluminum cans for sure and lots of plastic soda bottles, plastic bags, juice pouches, more plastic water bottles and aluminum/plastic cookie wrappers … Green Bucks
  • It was discovered in a hospital plastic bag. Times, Sunday Times
  • A plastic bag containing a can opener, a bottle opener, a corkscrew and a thin, flat metal bar bent at one end and doglegged at the other with a screw through the bar above the dogleg. Gorky Park
  • The litter, plastic bags, food wrappers and cold drink and beer cans in front of the post office are still there.
  • I threw the plastic bag from the pirogue into Marnier's boat and found the spare jerry can of petrol in the cabin of the other launch. A DARKENING STAIN
  • Once you reach security, paying for plastic bags to put your toiletries in is a real bugbear. Times, Sunday Times
  • They have no timber, only tents made from women's skirts and scarves, sacks, plastic bags and prayer mats.
  • The organs are kept in sealed plastic bags.
  • It is recommended that lunches are packed in lunch boxes and not in plastic bags.
  • Ten slips of paper were folded into a plastic bag, and they drew lots.
  • While some cover their heads with plastic bags or gunnysacks, some simply give into the rain and let the hair down.
  • To find out, I marked some green flowers and covered some white ones with a black plastic bag.
  • In some places they're dispensing with the sledges altogether these days and are sliding downhill sitting on plastic bags.
  • Plastic bags hung from trees and billowed in the water as they draped from branches along Old Man River. Plague of Plastics Across the Oceans
  • Holly had filled the plastic bag with oil and twisted the neck tight and fastened it with a snip of wire.
  • Water that is already transported to the Alcan smelter at Fort William and then dumped into the sea could be shipped overseas, either in tankers or in ‘large submersible shipments almost like big plastic bags’, he added.
  • Next, two smaller plastic bags emerge.
  • Subsistence-netters use small boats to gather the fish and bring them to the shore while others wade into the water to collect fish in buckets and plastic bags.
  • Once the festivities are over put the mistletoe berries in a plastic bag and keep in a cool place until February or March.
  • When cold, break bread pieces into a plastic bag and crush with a rolling pin until fine.
  • Treatment B was conducted to examine autonomous self-pollination by enclosing intact flowers, before anthesis, in small plastic bags.
  • They're bare roots and so far I've left them packed in their plastic bags and in the garage, but as I don't have their permanent containers yet I will need to heel them in today.
  • Try a plastic bag over the storm cover to protect it from rain and sand.
  • The murder weapon, a Kalashnikov free of fingerprints, was left at the scene in a plastic bag.
  • After he had departed, two men approached the luggage on the pavement, removing the heavy white plastic bag it contained. Times, Sunday Times
  • Many shop layouts and checkouts had to be rethought since plastic bags have to be reclassified as a product for sale and staff had to be trained to pack items more economically and safely.
  • TUCSON - Five newborn puppies wrapped in a plastic bag and left for dead in a Tucson alley are beating the odds. Azcentral.com | news
  • When we go out I take a damp flannel in a plastic bag. The Sun
  • But the plumber she called when the toilet kept plugging up sometimes found plastic baggies in it.
  • The Halachic propriety of opening a plastic bag is somewhat complex.
  • Since last November, the local government prohibited the production and sale of traditional plastic bags and containers, which are primarily used in restaurants and cafeterias.
  • Our dining room is filled with huge plastic bags filled with the packing papers, so it seems like things are much more cramped and unorganized than they really are.
  • Put an ice cube in a plastic bag and hold it over the gum. Times, Sunday Times
  • The recovery of the Titian was a seven-year project that culminated in the handover of the painting, wrapped in a plastic bag, at a London bus stop last August. The Purloined Painting
  • The litter, plastic bags, food wrappers and cold drink and beer cans in front of the post office are still there.
  • I keep china and crystal in the left hand cupboard, table linen and baking utensils etc in four of the drawers, the kids' craft stuff in one drawer and the final one is filled with random kitchenalia, like rolls of plastic bags, string, jam pot labels etc. Archive 2007-11-01
  • Sometimes the salad is kept in plastic bags where bugs incubate under artificial supermarket display lights.
  • Solvents are either "bagged" (sprayed in a plastic bag placed over the head) or "huffed" (inhaled fumes from a solvent-soaked cloth). Freon Abuse
  • A man sits on the floor, his back against a photo booth, with a plastic bag beside him.
  • The new occupants were planting a tree when they found a plastic bag. Times, Sunday Times
  • Boykin and Payne said Wilson then grabbed a white plastic bag and pulled out a bottle of sleeping pills and a G-string made from Pez candies strung together.
  • There is no scientific evidence to support the claim that 100,000 marine mammals have been killed by plastic bags. Times, Sunday Times
  • At least they can prove was small plastic baggies can be used for, but this is the floppiest reasons for banning ice cream trucks. ILLINOIZE
  • The shopkeeper could have caught a glimpse of the plastic bags.
  • Particularly pernicious examples of packaging are the flimsy plastic bags given out by stores in which to carry Stuff home, and single-serving bever age containers. THE STORY OF STUFF
  • As the letter was carried from the FBI to the Army lab, some powder leaked from a hole in the envelope into the plastic bag containing it.
  • But I do what I can with the plastic by reusing plastic bags to line the wastebasket and by saving plastic containers for other uses.
  • After he had departed, two men approached the luggage on the pavement, removing the heavy white plastic bag it contained. Times, Sunday Times
  • Put the oatmeal biscuits in a clean plastic bag and crush them with a rolling pin. Times, Sunday Times
  • Supermarkets have experienced a surge in the theft of trolleys and shopping baskets since the introduction of the plastic bags tax earlier this year.
  • However, in this instance, the crew was seen throwing large plastic bags filled with garbage into a deep trench located off Pattaya's coastline.
  • If you do not want to scent everything in your refrigerator, keep any ripe melons in a tightly closed plastic bag.
  • Arriva, unlike many train operators, is keeping litter bins on stations, but is using plastic bags held in a metal hoop, rather than metal bins.
  • Also, new chemical techniques mean fingerprints can now be lifted off anything from plastic bags to human skin. FINGERPRINTS: Murder and the Race to Uncover the Science of Identity
  • In the towns, cities and tourist centres, the plastic bag problem has become a plague; and attempts to cure it have begun to spring up.
  • Upstairs, bed linen and towels had been changed and the soiled items bundled into a black plastic bag he'd found under the sink. PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
  • Place in a plastic bag with the rosemary or thyme. Times, Sunday Times
  • The plastic bag contained all his worldly goods .
  • See that direct heat does not play on the plastic bags.
  • Put them into a plastic bag with a number of small holes, and put these in a cold root cellar or in the crisper of the refrigerator.
  • What generally happens if items are damaged is they are resealed in special clear plastic bags and delivered.
  • Do not throw rubbish onto the ground. Do not waste water. Use both sides of paper when you write. Stop using plastic bags for shopping. Make classrooms less noisy.
  • So I shovelled the stuff into a clear plastic bag. Family life
  • They had covered heat sensors with plastic bags and wandered off when smoke began billowing out. The Sun
  • I'm wondering whether I should stuff some in plastic bags and save it for eventual sculpting.
  • Envelopes are rapidly slithering and sliding across the floor and plastic bags can be seen floating upwards as if they were balloons.
  • Place in a plastic bag with the rosemary or thyme. Times, Sunday Times
  • The cattle lounge in traffic, chew plastic bags in alleys and occasionally bolt down busy streets.
  • Put the biscuits in a bowl or a plastic bag and crush them to small crumbs. The Sun
  • The group sold 700 million plastic bags made from 100% post-consumer recycled material, diverting 7,000 tons of plastic from landfill.
  • She died at age 44, with barbiturates in her blood and a plastic bag over her head.
  • Its been a week of catchy weather and many haymakers will be blessing the invention of plastic bags.
  • He would finger each bag for a minute, touching and stroking, and then finally moving it into a larger plastic bag.
  • He had achieved his object by sawing the bars into irregular pieces, collecting the sawdust in tough, plastic bags and melting and recasting some of the pieces as cubes in obviously home-made moulds.
  • My grandpappy always warned me to NOT use plastic bags for toilets, too. Leonard Nimoy Warns Us of the Terror of Y2K!
  • There are salad sandwiches wrapped in black plastic bags, hummus, pickled cucumbers sealed into an old plastic margarine tub and home-made goat's cheese.

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