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Why Are LEGOs So Expensive?
2:30PM 8/24/2011
It's a question that echoes across the Internet, on blogs and message boards, and in the content of a specialty wiki called Brickipedia: "Why are Legos so expensive?" Our search for an answer starts in Denmark, and ends in the playrooms of countless children around the world.
Investor-Backed Project Plans to Call Out Corporate Litterbugs
5:00PM 8/16/2011
By Alyce Lomax, The Motley Fool
Investing, Coca-Cola Company, Pepsico, Green, Market News, Streetwise
When it launches next month, the Plastic Disclosure Project -- which surprisingly has strong backing from investors -- plans to expose corporations that are contributing to plastic waste when it launches next month.
Dieters looking for a little extra willpower to avoid putting junk food in their grocery carts might want to leave their credit cards at home. New research shows that buying groceries with plastic instead of good old-fashioned folding money makes people more likely to buy unhealthy foods.
Complex passwords are one way to protect and secure your financial information, but if you want the ultimate level of protection for your online transactions you may want to look into a PayPal security key card. This credit card-sized piece of plastic adds an extra layer of security by generating a...
Walmart Perdue Great Value chicken nuggets recalled due to plastic
10:29AM 7/20/2010
Perdue issued a recall for frozen chicken nuggets sold at Walmart stores under the Great Value brand because the nuggets could contain pieces of plastic, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service.
The nuggets are sold in 1-pound, 13-ounce bags and have...
Walmart Marketside pizza recall: Could have plastic in it
3:00PM 6/26/2010
A Midwest private label manufacturer has issued a recall for Marketside pizza, a Walmart store brand, over concerns small pieces of plastic could have gotten into the food.
Great Kitchens, Inc., of Romeoville, Ill.,issued the recall for about 110,000 pounds of BBQ chicken pizza, the U.S....
Credit cards will take a traveler a long way in our cashless society -- as long as that traveler isn't trying to take a cab in Las Vegas.
Taxis remain among the last holdouts in U.S. society's transition to plastic, a lesson travel writer Randy Diamond has learned the hard way.
A New York Times blogger argues that wasting food is worse for the environment than a bit of plastic packaging that extends its shelf life, since the methane food produces when it decays. But composting and buying locally would better solve the problem.
Whether you like them or not, gift cards remain an incredibly popular gift idea, which is why the new Target Mobile Gift Card program is incredibly cool. The new feature allows you to convert any Target gift card into a digital barcode that can be used from any Internet connected cell phone -- no...
Uganda steps up the war on plastic
4:30PM 6/15/2009
Let's all please take just a moment and look around ourselves. How far do we have to look to find something made with plastic? In truth, we don't even have to look away from our computer monitors to complete the exercise. The plastic is there -- and it's laughing at us.Uganda's leading Web site,...
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