One Word for Airplane Makers: Plastics
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Facing public pressure to become more fuel efficient, aircraft makers are using plastic-based materials to reduce a jetâs weight.
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By Jacob Luecke, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Mar. 4--Plastic companies use bisphenol-A to make a lot of things -- food containers, water bottles and even baby bottles. But there's only one thing Fredrick vom Saal would like the industry to do with it: Take it off the market.
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Is it a bird? A plane? A planet-levelling asteroid?
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It could be tiny fibers that may one day replace steel, or catalysts that have led to environmentally friendly plastics. Guessing the winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry has often stumped researchers and pundits alike.
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By Nash, Steve  Biofuel's the thing, the new universal solvent, the energy elixir, the great wet hope. Your next car-or maybe the one after- could run on corn, or soybeans, or old pizza boxes.
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Since the 1980s, tough fire safety standards and increased use of flammable plastics led to wide use of a toxic flame retardant known as PBDE (polybrominated diphenyl ether).
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Just as kits of little plastic bricks can be used to make everything from models of the space shuttle to the statue of liberty, comets are looking more and more like one of nature's toolkits for creating life.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Catching his breath at a fitness club, Matt McHugh took a gulp of water from his trusty Nalgene plastic bottle and pondered the idea of switching to an alternative made of glass, stainless steel or another kind of plastic.
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Analysis: The company admits that most of its toy recalls were due to its own design flaws, not Chinese manufacturers. Lesson: Mattel needs China as much as China needs Mattel
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Scientists develop a light, breathable material for hazmat suits that keeps toxins out while letting water vapor escape. This could be the new Gore-Tex. By Cyrus Farivar.
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By Swanson, John A  Take a look around. Much of what you see has, in some small or large way, been simulated on a computer prior to production. Numerical simulation helps build safe bridges, improve gas mileage, and guide the manufacture of plastic parts.
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By Nonny de la Pena  Carbon dioxide. Orange peels. Chicken feathers. Olive oil. Potato peels. E. coli bacteria. It is as if chemists have gone Dumpster diving in their hunt to make biodegradable, sustainable and renewable plastics.
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Boeing launches its new 787 jet, billed as the most environmentally-friendly plane ever built.
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CANBERRA, Australia - An environmentally friendly paper manufacturer has stumbled upon an unlikely way to put an unwanted natural resource to good use.  The company has created its first batch of paper from marsupial manure.
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Company teams up with nanotech firms to develop high-performance plastics.
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Reduce the world's oil use with rice stems and feathers. No, really. By turning them into fabrics we could cut back on polyester and rayon. By Elizabeth Svoboda.
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Although NebuChamber, a metal inhaler device, may deliver more aerosolized drug to children with asthma, it is no more effective than Aerochamber, a plastic device, at controlling asthma symptoms, new research shows.