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San Diego, CA (PRWEB) December 4, 2010 Nice Rack is going green! In an effort to be a more eco-friendly surf rack company, Nice Rack is now making surfboard wall racks using 100% recycled plastic. The goal is to reduce the environmental impact of manufacturing surf racks by using recycled materials. Nice Rack made the switch to recycled plastic earlier this year. Recycled plastic is actually less expensive than Virgin (non-recycled) materials. This made it a no-brainer to make the switch. Its a win-win solution, we save money on materials while helping to reduce our impact on the environment, says Nice Rack Owner, Michael H. Russell. The recycled plastic actually comes from the…. Click Here to Read More

Question by I Speak For All Liberals: To protest Big Oil, I scrapped my car and only ride a bicycle, but the tires are made of petroleum, now what!? I hate Big Oil and want America to break it’s dependency…but Petroleum is used in almost everything we use. Now what can Liberals like me do!?? _______________________________________________________ A partial list of products made from Petroleum (144 of 6000 items) One 42-gallon barrel of oil creates 19.4 gallons of gasoline. The rest (over half) is used to make things like: Solvents Diesel fuel Motor Oil Bearing Grease Ink Floor Wax Ballpoint Pens Football Cleats Upholstery Sweaters Boats Insecticides…. Click Here to Read More

BERKELEY, Calif. (PRWEB) August 20, 2007 ????Silicone hydrogels make possible a new generation of ‘super-permeable’ contact lenses that can transmit unprecedented amounts of oxygen to the cornea and, in some cases, enable 30 consecutive days of ‘extended wear’ without removal. “Silicone-hydrogel contact lenses represent a breakthrough over traditional hydrogel soft contact lenses, because silicone permits so much more oxygen to pass through the lens, which is essential for a healthy cornea,” said Bob Ward. “In fact, these next-generation lenses allow six or seven times more oxygen to permeate than previous contact lenses, which is why they are becoming very popular with both wearers…. Click Here to Read More

New Debit, Credit and Bank Cards Are Made of Recycled PVC (PRWEB) January 25, 2007 Boston, MA — Paying with plastic took a green turn earlier this month with the new AB RecycledCard, a 100-percent recycled PVC product, introduced by Arthur Blank and Company, a Boston-based manufacturer of custom debit, credit, and bank cards. According to company spokesperson Suzanne dÂ?Amonville, the new product also Â?closes the manufacturing loopÂ? and eliminates waste. Using the overruns and other scraps generated from its traditional PVC…. Click Here to Read More

This portable typewriter is plastic junk, but amazingly, it still works fine after about 19 years of ownership. Was purchased at a Highland Appliance store in Michigan in 1988. If nobody makes the ribbon, I’ll have to scrap the machine. Do you know who has obscure…. Click Here to Read More

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Device Made With OXPEKK-IG Polymer Receives ANVISA Approval Oxford Performance Materials (OPM) is pleased to announce that a medical device produced with its OXPEKK®-IG polymer has received ANVISA clearance. ANVISA is the regulatory authority for the Brazilian market Read more on…. Click Here to Read More

Background A flashlight is a portable, battery-operated device used for illumination. A typical unit consists of one or more dry cell batteries arranged in a line inside a battery compartment that forms the handle of the light. The flow of electricity from the batteries to the bulb at the front end of the light is controlled through a switch mechanism placed between the batteries and the lamp. History Practical, portable light sources have been sought throughout history. Torches and candles were early sources of light but these were largely replaced with lanterns as people learned to burn various animal and mineral oils. However, it was not until the nineteenth century that electricity was…. Click Here to Read More

Giving gifts, especially during birthdays, wedding, baptismal, graduations and the like is a tradition practiced by almost everyone in the globe. Of course, there are times when you find it hard to find the perfect gift for your special friend or someone in particular. It can be help if you will base the gift you will give to the personality of the person you are giving it to. You also need some information about what he or she likes or dislikes. Special occasions come only once a year, sometimes once in a lifetime. When that day arrives, a simple gift is nice to have. It can be a birthday, an anniversary, a graduation, thanksgiving or Christmas among others, gift giving is a traditional…. Click Here to Read More

Seventh-graders made difference with cleanup During a recent clean up on Hampton Beach, our middle school collected 105 pounds of trash, including more than 100 Styrofoam pieces littering the environment, threatening wildlife. Read more on Exeter…. Click Here to Read More

American made … Chinese owned About a mile past the Bountiful Blessings Church on the outskirts of Spartanburg, S.C., make a right turn. There, tucked into an industrial court behind a row of sapling cherry trees not much taller than I am, past a company that makes rubber stamps and another that stitches logos onto caps and bags, is a brand-new factory: the state-of-the-art American Yuncheng Gravure Cylinder plant. Read more on Fortune via Yahoo!…. Click Here to Read More

MADE IN IBM LABS: IBM Research Creates World’s Smallest 3D Map; Brings Low-Cost, Ease of Use to Creation of Nanoscale … ZURICH and SAN JOSE, Calif., April 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists have created a 3D map of the earth so small that 1,000 of them could fit on one grain of salt.* The scientists accomplished this through a new, breakthrough technique that uses a tiny, silicon tip with a sharp apex — 100,000 times smaller than a sharpened pencil — to create patterns and structures as … Read more on…. Click Here to Read More