…plastics—whether some of them contain chemicals worse than BPA—has stepped up my resolve to at least stop eating and drinking any more plastic than I have to. Ceramic Melitta drip-coffee cone Knowing that heat helps nasty components leech into food,…
Tags: health, healthy living
…(PTFE) polylactic acid and nylon. Or use the free Beat the Bead smartphone app that scans a product’s barcode for plastics. Among good-guy/-gal cosmetic manufacturers using no microplastics are L’Oreal, Clarins, Botanicals and Clorox (Burt’s Bees), along with many others…
Tags: health, healthy living, Mary Carpenter
…shoe pieces don’t make a very healthy snack. / MyLittleBird photo. Flash the Marlin’s head was made of shoe soles, a comb, a hat brim, and more recyclable plastics. / MyLittleBird photo. Lidia the Seal is named for the variety…
Tags: museums
…plastics and resins similar to those used in dental replacements, “engineers and medical professionals now routinely 3D print prosthetic hands and surgical tools.” Bioprinting (fabricating “three-dimensional structures of biological materials, from cells to biochemicals) [has as its] ultimate goal to…
Tags: health, healthy living, Mary Carpenter
…AM RELIEVED TO say that there is a Plastics Historical Society based in London and it publishes the Plastiquarian journal twice a year. Why relieved? Because, as unfashionable as this is, I confess that I LOVE PLASTIC! Particularly plastic drinking…
Tags: decorating ideas, entertaining, Nancy McKeon
…impurities (PCBs from plastics) and heavy metals; causing overfishing; and risking oxidation during production or shipping that can destroy healthy omega 3s. While levels of impurities are considered too low to affect the general population, supplements made from algae avoid…
Tags: health, healthy living, Mary Carpenter
…($125) is unfortunately sold out, but it’s still available in two other colors. The hats are made from 100% post-consumer plastics. CENTER: Maximum storage capacity in the smallest space? We’re all for it, and this 4.5 high by -3.4 long…
Tags: fashion, janet kelly
…They are made of your absolute finest, most luxuriant and costly plastic—the Prada of plastics—magnificently clipped, excruciatingly lifelike, bearing absolutely no resemblance to Astroturf and its ilk. So good are these installations that one (meaning me) when sensing a fraud,…
…Mr. McGuire tells Benjamin there’s a great future in plastics. I would amend that just a bit. And I guess we’ll see if at some point Carrie agrees. MLB friends, we’ll see you on the other side of Martin Luther…
Tags: And Just Like That, Nancy McKeon
…costly plastic—the Prada of plastics—magnificently clipped, excruciatingly lifelike, bearing absolutely no resemblance to Astroturf and its ilk. So good are these installations that one (meaning me) when sensing a fraud, must bend and attempt to pluck a blade to be…
…and the plastics Barbie is made of, and the radioactive “plastic rocks” scientists have begun finding in remote places on Earth. Anthropocene means something caused by human activity; some are suggesting a better term for our evolving era is Plasticine.)…
Tags: Barbie, Nancy McKeon
BEFORE THERE WAS Amazon.com (the “everything store”), there was Rodman’s, Washington’s very own everything store. How many places can you think of that sell Roquefort cheese and Les Trois Petits Cochons pate and also rent out wheelchairs? Sell vacuum cleaners…
Tags: Nancy McKeon, shopping
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