http://www.brightplastic.com www.brightplastic.com Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:22:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Compare an apple and a bag of chips and decide which is the nutrient-dense snack. Uh, right. The exercise became surprisingly easy for some midstate kids after they prodded familiar and not-so-familiar fruits and vegetables and learned how the vitamins within each fight disease and nourish growing bodies. Chips have plenty of salt ... http://www.brightplastic.com/worldwide/farming-groups-help-kids-learn-about-nutrition It's a long way from this New England village to Jakarta, Indonesia. But the distance is bridged creatively by a company named Monsoon Vermont. Founded in 2005 by Julia Genatossio, Monsoon Vermont sells items made from nonrecyclable plastic collected by scavengers from the streets, landfills, and waterways of Jakarta, the capital ... http://www.brightplastic.com/breaking-news/trash-to-treasure-artful-gear-with-a-conscience Shares of plastic packaging makers rose Tuesday after the price of crude oil, a key raw material in making plastics, plunged as Hurricane Gustav appeared to largely spare petroleum installations in the Gulf of Mexico. Light, sweet crude for October delivery fell $7.73 to $107.73 a barrel on the New York ... http://www.brightplastic.com/plastic-packaging/plastic-packaging-companies-rise