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...begins throwing them onto the closet floor, Thebaud asks nervously, “Are you throwing the hangers away?” Neill replies, “Let’s just say I’m encouraging you to explore the world of plastic hangers...
...summer the ground turns mushy, and the huge trucks bog down. "It's like working in peanut butter," says a Syncruder. In the winter, when temperatures can drop to -40F, the oil sand is so hard it grinds up the shovels' steel teeth as if they were plastic combs. It's not unusual to replace the teeth after a single 12-hour shift. Suncorp, another oil-sands company, has an $8 million annual budget just for that...
Payday is moving from paper to plastic. Payroll cards, the latest iteration of stored-value cards--like the gift cards you can buy from retailers and give at Christmas--are sweeping into payroll departments at some of the nation's largest companies. McDonald's, Lowe's, Blockbuster, FedEx and Sears, Roebuck are among those writing fewer paper checks and loading value onto cards, which are held by over 1 million workers...
...helm, Body Shop's comparable-store sales in the U.S. were still down 5% in 2003 from the previous year. Constantine, 52, says he has left the door open for future talks. "We hold the same ideals as Body Shop, but we've done it without all the plastic bottles," he says of Lush's ethics as well as its emphasis on pared-down packaging. The company's catalog, which promotes bars of solid shampoo and bare blocks of deodorant, color-codes ingredients to distinguish the organic from the merely natural. It also tags some 75% of its products with...
...artworks are displayed separately from photographs and plans of Sert’s own house, which are on view at the design school. For an architect so interested in synthesizing the plastic arts with architecture and urban design—especially within his own home—this curatorial move is a bit puzzling...