The phrase "a type of plastic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when categorizing or describing a specific kind of plastic material.
Example: "Polyethylene is a type of plastic commonly used in packaging."
Alternatives: "a kind of plastic" or "a form of plastic".
Molded polyresin, a type of plastic, allows for gargantuan objects with light weight, weather resistance and strength.
ED is a type of plastic scintillator detector with an active area of 1 m2.
Soda bottles are made from a type of plastic known as PET, which commonly has two main components.
Most of those products are made from a type of plastic called polylactic acid (PLA), which is also produced from corn.
Be cautious with so-called "green bags" though; those commonly sold at Coles and Woolworths are made of polypropylene, a type of plastic.
The authors fabricated the OPV cells and OECTs on an ultrathin substrate, which was made of a type of plastic known as parylene.
"Ford is highlighting the potential for a future of renewably sourced, low-carbon polyester that can be recycled again and again". Coke's master plan calls for it to use PlantBottle – a type of PET plastic that uses plant materials to replace approximately 30percentt of the petroleum content – for all of its PET plastic bottles by 2020.
From medical-supply stores, he obtained a type of thin plastic used to make hospital gowns, which he cut and draped into delicate geometric patterns.
Instead, the department is promising to use a combination of concrete and a type of recycled plastic that looks like wood.
Resin, which is a type of cast plastic, tends to expand and contract at a faster rate than metal, and on Ms. Atta's first seven or eight attempts the resin cracked right off the metal as it cooled.
Page A11 New York WOOD GIVES WAY TO PLASTIC ON CONEY ISLAND BOARDWALK After a yearlong fight over the city's proposal to use concrete to replace the wooden boards along stretches of the aging, 2.7-mile Boardwalk in Coney Island, the New York City Parks Department has offered a compromise of sorts: a combination of concrete and a type of recycled plastic that looks like wood.
