In korte hoofdstukken met veel illustraties in kleur wordt uitgelegd hoe plastic is uitgevonden, welke soorten er zijn en hoe plastic in de toekomst kan worden gebruikt. Vanaf ca. 11 jaar.
The world consumes over 300 million tonnes of plastic each year. But when did we start using plastic? And why? Where does all the plastic waste go?
Annie Leonard, author of The Story of Stuff " It turns out that plastic is not only an ongoing environmental peril, but a compulsively interesting story. Buy it (with cash).
176 Americans produced relatively little trash: Strasser, Waste and Want, 11–13. The book provides a useful history of how Americans have dealt with and disposed of waste. 176 “trash heated rooms”: Ibid., 13. The pendulum began to swing ...
Features interesting facts on 77 plastic products and materials, a table of physical and chemical properties for plastics, a website directory, and key properties of each featured material.
How the autobiography of plastic became the autobiography of all of us
Writer DOUG WAGNER teams up with artists DANIEL HILLYARD and LAURA MARTIN for a chilling new crime series that ROBERT KIRKMAN reviewed by stating, "This is the weirdest s**t I've ever read. I love it!" Collects PLASTIC #1-5
This title explores what plastic is, where it comes from, how it's made, what its properties are, and what it is used for.
Readers of the five chapter books in Use It! Reuse It! will learn how five basic materials-glass, metal, paper, plastic, and wood-are made into the objects we see and use in everyday life.
Discover the world of plastic. That inexpensive, flexible, resilient, and soft-ignored material enters the limelight in this book of plastic furniture, lighting, architecture, and everyday objects.
This book examines the success story of plastic in the 20th century and at the same time presents the different discourses on how we should manage the waste the material produces and also find solutions that take into account its entire ...
Freinkel's conclusion: we cannot stay on our plastic-paved path. And we don't have to. Plastic points the way toward a new creative partnership with the material we love to hate but can't seem to live without.
Plastic explores what plastic is, where it comes from, how itÕs made, what its properties are, and what it is used for.