Statewide plastic recycling rate falls.
Byline: Greg Bolt The Register-Guard The statewide recycling rate for plastic containers has fallen below a statutory minimum for the first time, triggering new requirements for plastics companies aimed at boosting recycled material. State residents recycled rigid plastic containers - tubs, bottles, cups and plastic...

Resources.
Accessories: VivaTerra, www.vivaterra.com Barbecue countertop backsplash: Artful Living, 760/346-2602 Basalt rock fountain: Lyngso Garden Materials, www.lyngsogarden.com Base rock/crushed stone/sand: Lyngso Garden Materials, www.lyngsogarden.com Bathroom hardware: Atlas Homewares, www.atlashomewares.com Birdbath/firepit/trellises: :L:M:N:O: Arts, www.Imnoarts.com Brick: H.C. Muddox Brick &...

Vanishing devices: doctors implant disappearing stents, heart patches.
Novel heart devices fashioned primarily from materials that the body can absorb or break down have made their debut in patients. This week, cardiologists presented the first clinical studies of two such devices at a conference on cardiovascular therapies in Washington, D.C. The body absorbs most of...

Wanted: plastics.
Byline: Matt Cooper The Register-Guard GLENWOOD - A new recycling rule to live by: If it's plastic, Weyerhaeuser Co. probably wants it. The timber giant has vastly expanded the types of recyclable plastic it will take in Lane County. This amounts to an economic and...

Who said gardening is hard work?
Although we don't mind toiling in the topsoil while tending to our flowerbeds, vegetables, shrubs, and lawn, there's nothing easy about it, so forgive us if our skepticism was raised by a company named Easy Gardener, which claimed its products make gardening ... well ... easier. Cynicism, however, has...

Resource recovery: The Philippine model; EDUCATORS SPEAK.
Byline: Leonarda N. Camacho CONTRARY to public perception, garbage is not waste. It consists of natural resources - like paper which comes from trees; plastics, from oil; glass bottles, from silica; tin cans, from iron ore. Natural resources such as trees, oil, silica and iron...

Putting squish into artificial organs. (Technology).
Doctors may someday routinely replace failed organs with substitutes made in a factory. One leading strategy for making artificial tissues is to supply a scaffold of a material, such as a biodegradable polymer, on which cells organize themselves into replacement body parts. However, most scaffold materials now available are...

Event aims to plant new notion of hemp.
Byline: Rebecca Nolan The Register-Guard It was a peaceful Saturday afternoon at Alton Baker Park, site of the first ever Emerald Empire Hempfest. All kinds of people stopped by the free event to shop for hemp products, to listen to music about the political plight...

LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG.
Byline: The Register-Guard Include public in design Since I was quoted in a Sept. 21 article on the new federal courthouse, I'd like to explain why I've concluded the proposed courthouse is a failed design. Since the designer's initial plan for wheelchair access was a...

Chemistry.
No assembly required Using DNA as a scaffold, researchers devised a way of creating carbon-nanotube transistors that self-assemble in a test tube--a feat that paves the way for more-complex circuits made from these nanocomponents (164: 324). Bone fix To serve as a scaffolding for the formation of...