Sentence examples for common plastic from inspiring English sources

Or that polythene, the world's most common plastic, was accidentally invented twice?

Most common plastic objects, from water pipes to food packaging and hardhats, are forms of polythene.

The bill, in its current version, would put a five-cent fee on the most common plastic and paper bags.

It is now working with Novozymes, a pioneering Danish biotech firm, to repeat the trick for polypropylene, another common plastic.

Breathing vinyl chloride, which is used to make the common plastic PVC, can make people dizzy or sleepy.

Two years later ICI had turned this serendipitous discovery into a practical method for producing the common plastic that's almost certainly within easy reach of you now.

These chemicals, called plasticizers, seep out of common plastics made of polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, to make them brittle, said Yvonne Shashoua, a British doctoral student with the National Museum of Denmark who has worked on plastic degradation.

PVC, one of the world's most common plastics and which can be easily recycled, often contains phthalates.

Stainless steel pots could last for millennia and certain common plastics might not break down until microbes evolved to consume them.

Does it make sense to re-classify common plastics as hazardous, or are there better ways to reduce the amount of plastics we throw out?

That means that a whole range of polymers which do not conduct electricity (such as most common plastics) can be brought into play.