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...Yugoslav forces in Kosovo employed crudely made fake artillery from wood and plastic tubes to trick Nato pilots....
...“She got up and stood there holding her stupid knock-off Kate Spade bag or whatever it was, her hair pulled back into a ponytail and crowned with a useless, plastic, tortoiseshell headband,” notes the narrator...
...On Tuesday, Reuters’ Milana Vinn reached out to a bagholder: Aliya Capital Partners LLC, one of the biggest investors that joined Elon Musk’s $44-billion acquisition of Twitter Inc, said on Tuesday it expects...
...Her grandmother was one of the first five women in New York to take the bar exam; her grandfather was a “pioneer of plastic surgery in America” (noses and chins)....
...The company had made good progress with investments in plastics recycling and energy from waste services, he said....
...Activist short seller Muddy Waters, who had been short the stock since May 2019, followed up with a series of open letters to Fortis....
...There’s been little news of the complaints since, except for Solutions 30 chief executive Gianbeppi Fortis’ comments on a April 29 conference call that it was “closely cooperating with market authorities...
...Scientific American says mycelium is “the fungus mushrooms are made of, but it can also produce everything from plastics to plant-based meat to a scaffolding for growing organs — and much more”....
...For years reporters had highlighted the fact that China spends more on imported computer chips than plastic, oil and iron combined....
...Vinyls and plastics had jarred with that ambition and Orbia’s drive to focus less on chemicals and more on agriculture, water and infrastructure....
...Plus, the FT’s Judith Evans explains why consumers are changing their attitudes towards single-use plastic in the pandemic. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information....
...Mind you, there was that RPC plastic packaging deal last year . . . Sir Stelios £5m? Whistle for it!...
...Plastic surgery clinics, a lucrative source of core ad revenues, are taking a hit. Nose jobs are the last thing on people’s minds....
...It took LVMH, the luxury group owned by Bernard Arnault, just 72 hours to get the first plastic bottles of hand sanitiser rolling off its production lines....
...Hedge fund short selling and negative publicity about plastics have weighed on RPC’s share price since 2016....
...Berry Global Group, the US plastic packaging company, is seeking to gatecrash the £3.3bn takeover of its UK competitor RPC by a private equity firm....
...The deal comes as greater public concern about the impact of ocean pollution from plastic waste has led political leaders in the UK and Brussels to pledge bans on single-use plastic items such as cutlery...
...Apollo’s monstrous rival Recycling and the science of plastics are not new concepts — they were explored in gory detail in Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein....
...The proposed £3.3bn takeover of RPC, Europe’s biggest plastic packaging company, has come under attack from two shareholders who say the bid from US private equity firm Apollo Global Management is too low...
...RPC shareholders are nervous about the accounting debate, share price volatility and negative publicity about plastics....
...A model of a “dynamic street” made up of hexagonal wooden blocks, and a prototype of a “raincoat” — transparent, domed plastic awnings that would attach to buildings and cover the areas in front — are on...
...eliminate plastic waste in the ocean....
...And if that is the case, it is the software and apps that develop around the software platform that really matter, not the plastic and metal shell they live in, as phonemakers such as Nokia or BlackBerry...
...In the UK’s tech-starved stock market, ZPG is sometimes lumped in with stolid mid-caps that run pubs or make plastic pipe....
...Rich in natural biodiversity, it is well poised to tap into innovative business models that value natural capital, such as those looking to green, plant-based plastics from the Amazon’s rich biodiversity...
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