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...Against the use of cloth shopping bags, however, or the string type his grandmother might have taken to the high street, Joseph has fewer arguments. Plastic bags make handy trash-can liners, he says, or receptacles for cat litter. And, of course, they can be reused to hold shopping. "Do you know what I think is the best thing about them? You can shove about 12 of them in your glove compartment...
Walking around Berlin recently, the American visitor could be forgiven for thinking Germany was the 51st state in the Union - and that it would vote heavily for Senator Barack Obama on November 4. Joggers in local parks proudly sport Obama T shirts; the trendy expat hangout White Trash Fast Food was turned into an Obama campaign center for a day; and a city magazine has published instructions on how to craft little American flags to wave in welcoming the junior Senator from Illinois, who visits on Thursday...
...artists have created "Seized," a small but mesmerizing exhibit made out of the refuse, scraps and assorted detritus that FBI agents left inside and outside of his house. "I started thinking," says Kurtz, remembering the day he returned to his house after the raid, "they went through my trash, so maybe I'll go through theirs...
...spokesperson Dempsey points out that the pizza boxes and most of the rest of the trash were left in garbage bags outside of Kurtz's house. And during the search, all food was consumed outside of the house. "We had to order food," she says. "When you have a federal search warrant, you can't just take a lunch hour. The judges wouldn't appreciate it." And the cat? "We gave the cat food and water the whole time we were there...
...researchers continue to examine plastic's impact on our bodies, there's no doubt that cutting down on the material will help the environment. Plastic makes up nearly 12% of our trash, up from 1% in 1960. You can literally see the result 1,000 miles (1,600 km) west of San Francisco in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a swirling mass of plastic debris twice the size of Texas. The rising cost of petroleum may get plastic manufacturers to come up with incentives for recycling; current rates stand at less than 6% in the U.S. But the best...