The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that manufacturers have voluntarily withdrawn greaseproofing agents known as C8 compounds from the marketplace. These compounds are used as coatings on paper wrappers and containers ...
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Zara,the Inditex Group's fashion retailer,opens a flagship store featuring its revamped image at 460-490 Oxford Street in London's city centre.The fourth Zara location on the British capital's busiest shopping street has pride of place in ...
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The dragon boat festival is a totem festival. Falling on the 5th of the fifth lunar month, it is close to the summer solstice. Pestilence, as a result of the heat and dampness, is at its worst, threatening lives of human community. Images ...
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' Making sacrificial offerings to QinghaiLake is a folk customs activity of rich religious features. It is also a cultural phenomenon, comprising multiple folk customs while expressing people's good wishes to exist harmoniously ...
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Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery has formed a sales agreement with Australia-based BetaPak, which will represent Spee-Dee’s product line and provide ongoing service to companies within the Asia Pacific region. Spee-Dee Sales/Marketing ...
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Nassau Candy, a manufacturer, importer and distributor of specialty confections and fine foods, has introduced an all-natural line of gummy candies from confectionery firm Sweet Candy. Classics, Au Natural candy line, which is ...
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US carmaker Ford Motor is recalling 262,000 Fiesta subcompacts from model years 2011-2013 to reprogramme the passenger side curtain air bags. The recall, which is expected to start soon, covers 154,604 Fiestas in the US, with the rest in ...
The patchwork is a traditional folk art in which a painting is created with cotton cloth and threads by hand stitching. The art with a distinctive local flavor is popular in north Shaanxi area in west China. The embryonic form of ...
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California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has issued a health alert, asking consumers not to eat shucked and in-shell raw oysters from Drakes Bay Oyster, an oyster grower based in California, as they may be contaminated with Vibrio ...
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A new Life-Cycle-Assessment (LCA) undertaken by the Intertek Group for UK-based Symphony Environmental Technologies’ d2w oxo-biodegradable plastic carrier bags and bread bags revealed that the oxo-biodegradable bag performed 75% ...
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The city of San Francisco is seen as the greenest city in the US and is keen on adopting measures to treat packaging waste as resources, which include plastic bags and glass bottles. IBM Research said because of the high value of recycled ...
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The Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA) has released a new report which informs that the recycling efforts by Canadians have increased the amount of post-consumer plastic packaging being recycled across the country. Moore ...
UK-based supplier of sacks, bags and speciality products Cromwell Polythene has launched a new website webuypolythene.com, an offshoot of its recycling division which is expected to help the company secure better volumes of transit ...
UK-based Kenco has partnered with recycling incentive specialist TerraCycle to create the UK's first scheme that urges customers to recycle all brands of coffee packaging waste. Many councils in the country do not deal with the materials ...
In ancient China, engagement was an important social rite where man and woman confirm marital ties, next only to official marriage in significance. Marital ties were made by following "parents' order and on the matchmaker's word". However, ...
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