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Sun shy: Ecoplastics workers test plastic cups that disintegrate in sunlight
Sun shy: Ecoplastics workers test plastic cups that disintegrate in sunlight

Sun shy: Ecoplastics workers test plastic cups that disintegrate in sunlight

Date12/28/1988
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Original Toronto Star caption: Sun shy: Ecoplastics workers test plastic cups that disintegrate in sunlight.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0010859F
      Disappearing plastics, Firm says products disintegrate in sun / B5
      Disappearing plastics, Firm says products disintegrate in sun / B5
      Dunlop, Al
      12/28/1988
      James Guillet holds container of concentrate crystals of discovery that allows plastic to disintegrate in sun over short period of time when mixed with raw material prior to manufacture
      James Guillet holds container of concentrate crystals of discovery that allows plastic to disintegrate in sun over short period of time when mixed with raw material prior to manufacture
      Bull, Ron
      11/18/1976
      Inventor tears up a cup: James Guillet's non-polluting plastic melts in sunlight
      Inventor tears up a cup: James Guillet's non-polluting plastic melts in sunlight
      Darrell, Dick
      9/12/1972
      Green bottle: ICI manager David Gannon shows off plastic bottles that will disintegrate when tossed on a compost heap.
      Green bottle: ICI manager David Gannon shows off plastic bottles that will disintegrate when tossed on a compost heap.
      Stuparyk, Michael
      10/30/1991
      Stil homeless: Ulysses Curtis has been trying for 30 years to find a home in the Canadian Football League Hall of Fame in Hamilton. 'Crazy Legs', a former Argo, drank champagne from two Grey Cups. He's now a guidance counsellor at Downsview Secondary School.
      Stil homeless: Ulysses Curtis has been trying for 30 years to find a home in the Canadian Football League Hall of Fame in Hamilton. 'Crazy Legs', a former Argo, drank champagne from two Grey Cups. He's now a guidance counsellor at Downsview Secondary School.
      Dexter, Brian
      1/10/1984
      Few athletes possesss a larger and more amazing collection of cups, medals, medallions, trays and other objects of art won as prizes. They fill the sh(...)
      Few athletes possesss a larger and more amazing collection of cups, medals, medallions, trays and other objects of art won as prizes. They fill the sh(...)
      Barkley, Harold
      10/30/1954
      Students learn which way the wind blows, Patsy Turnbull blows on the cups of an anemometer, a device for measuring wind speed, last night at a display(...)
      Students learn which way the wind blows, Patsy Turnbull blows on the cups of an anemometer, a device for measuring wind speed, last night at a display(...)
      Teskey, Frank
      3/3/1969
      Metal cups: Above, Mugler's gingham romper with apron applique
      Metal cups: Above, Mugler's gingham romper with apron applique
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      10/26/1990
      Half a cup's better. During dressing-room hijinks after his team's 20-13 victory over Montreal Alouettes, Edmonton Eskimo centre Ted Milian tries to h(...)
      Half a cup's better. During dressing-room hijinks after his team's 20-13 victory over Montreal Alouettes, Edmonton Eskimo centre Ted Milian tries to h(...)
      Bezant, Graham
      11/26/1978
      Competing for cups and money, snowmobiles race around a track on trucked-in snow at the Sno-brr-fest in Orangeville
      Competing for cups and money, snowmobiles race around a track on trucked-in snow at the Sno-brr-fest in Orangeville
      Norris, Dave
      2/3/1974
      Booze Brothers. Grey Cup's official carousers didn't waste any time when they claimed their baggage at Toronto's airport yesterday. The 30 men from Va(...)
      Booze Brothers. Grey Cup's official carousers didn't waste any time when they claimed their baggage at Toronto's airport yesterday. The 30 men from Va(...)
      Slaughter, Mike
      11/24/1989
      Catalogue of utensils displayed on a chopping block, all from Pampered Kitchens, includes stainless steel dry measuring cups, high carbon, stainless s(...)
      Catalogue of utensils displayed on a chopping block, all from Pampered Kitchens, includes stainless steel dry measuring cups, high carbon, stainless s(...)
      Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
      12/16/1975