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polyvinylchloride

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  • Those new homes look good – but they are covered with petroleum based vinyl siding that will literally be falling off the building after the polyvinylchloride is decayed from UV exposure in ten to twenty years.

    Finding Home despite the New World Order - The Mortgage Crisis. 2007

  • The ban - which applies only to thin, transparent polyvinylchloride bags - was necessary because the bags clogged sewers and produced poisonous fumes when burned, he said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • A video journey from home to workplace to corporate headquarters, to understand the impacts of polyvinylchloride on environmental health.

    OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005

  • Maybe my boss can't upgrade our web site, but she can tell me whether or not polyvinylchloride is gonna kill me in the next ten minutes.

    dogsolitude Diary Entry dogsolitude 1999

  • In reality for most small food processors in developing countries the choice will be restricted to packaging made of polypropylene, polythene and polyvinylchloride (PVC).

    3 Packaging materials 1982

  • They are made of rigid or flexible non-plasticised polyvinylchloride (PVC).

    2.1. Open ditches 1982

  • PVC (polyvinylchloride) is also used for shrinkwrapping and stretchwrapping (described below) but is more expensive and less easily available than polythene in most developing countries.

    3 Packaging materials 1982

  • The largest penalty, worth R31,1-million, has been levied against Marley Pipe Systems, following its admission of cartel conduct in the manufacture and supply of polyvinylchloride and high-density polyethylene pipe products used in the South African building, civil engineering, mining and agricultural sectors.

    Engineering News | Home Terence Creamer 2010

  • The largest penalty, worth R31,1-million, has been levied against Marley Pipe Systems, following its admission of cartel conduct in the manufacture and supply of polyvinylchloride and high-density polyethylene pipe products used in the South African building, civil engineering, mining and agricultural sectors.

    Engineering News | Home Terence Creamer 2010

  • Government loophole leads to organic certification for vinyl and some PVC, vinyl and some derivatives, including polyvinylchloride (PVC), could be the first non-agricultural products to receive the coveted "Organic" certification from the USDA.

    unknown title 2009

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