Too many products come in disposable packaging; it's so wasteful!

"From the beginning, the point of the ordinance was not to fill the city treasury but to reduce reliance on disposable packaging."

Finally, the extra disposable packaging wastes the earth's resources and clogs our landfills.

These "buildings" are little more than reinforced tents and I sometimes think of them as disposable packaging writ large.

That could include encouraging, or requiring, manufacturers to use less plastic, paperboard, cardboard and other disposable packaging materials.

This would, he wrote, satisfy the retailers' demand for a theft-discouraging size while avoiding the waste of disposable packaging.

An inventor, de La Poype understood that plastics and disposable packaging would become very important.

A large percentage of plastic produced each year is used to make disposable packaging items or products which will get permanently thrown out within one year.

Record Stores Object Other packaging details will be left to individual record companies but the final products are to have little if any disposable packaging.

Many foods (including frosting and pressurized "spray can" whipped cream) can be purchased in disposable packaging designed to serve the function of a pastry bag.

Thin-gauge roll-fed or inline extruded thermoforming applications are dominated by rigid or semi-rigid disposable packaging.

The Environment Minister, Klaus Topfer, said the federal Government would consider adopting a nationwide law imposing taxes on disposable packaging used by the fast-food industry.

Initially, scientists and manufacturers have concentrated on breaking into the 14 billion-pound-a-year disposable packaging industry with a hybrid product that is part corn starch and part polyethylene.

One of the big losers on the day was the Earthshell Corporation, which licenses a composite material for the manufacture of disposable packaging for the food service industry.

Polystyrene (PS) is a thermoplastic resin that is used in many applications, such as disposable packaging, electronic devices, large appliances (for example in refrigeration liners) and household goods.

To the Editor: It is unfortunate that a German court decision now allows cities and towns to tax disposable packaging and utensils used at fast-food restaurants (Business Day, Aug. 22).

And the ultimate development in disposable packaging was the TV dinner, the domestic version of the airline dinner, bought complete with disposable tray, containers, cups and utensils, all of them made to be thrown away.

The minimal friction and very little wear in such a hinge makes it useful in the design of microelectromechanical systems, and the low cost and ease of manufacturing makes them quite common in disposable packaging.

The fast-food chain - long criticized for its disposable packaging - and the environmental lobby established a joint task force last month to identify options for reducing and recycling waste at the McDonald's Corporation's 11,000 restaurants worldwide.

The music industry had said last March that the long box would be replaced, and record companies began developing alternatives that require less disposable packaging or that, like a record album cover, are meant to be kept along with the recorded music.

Lastly, on the subject of re-use, this form of recycling should not be encouraged systematically, because the environmental impact of an item of re-usable packaging is not necessarily less harmful than that of an item of disposable packaging.

Sweetheart Cup, a leading manufacturer of disposable packaging and food service items, and Earthshell, a developer of biodegradable materials, said yesterday that Sweetheart intended to manufacture and sell containers, cups, plates and bowls from Earthshell's materials in North America.

EARTHSHELL, Santa Barbara, Calif., a maker of biodegradable disposable packaging for the food services industry, cited a working capital deficit of $6.9 million as of Dec. 31, 2001, and expressed doubt that it could keep financing operations beyond 2002.