Sentence examples for plastic residue from inspiring English sources

So-called biodegradable plastics include starches that degrade upon exposure to sunlight (photodegradation), but a fine plastic residue remains, and the degradable additives preclude recycling of these products.

Transformative science and policies are needed to mitigate uncertainty of biodegradable plastic residue accumulation in agricultural soils.

The amount of waste plastic residue has to be reduced, with an increase in the efficiency of the fuel oils, thus providing an alternate energy resource to the environment.

Granted a warrant, a search of the O'Bryan house offered up a pair of scissors with plastic residue attached, which was similar to that found on the cyanide-laced sweets.

Contador's urine sample, taken during the day before his clenbuterol positive sample, was reported to contain plastic residue indicating possible blood doping, but the test is not recognised by the World Anti-Doping Agency, so no charges in relation to this finding were brought.

Because many of the epoch's defining effects — climate change, ocean acidification, deforestation, mass extinction — are unfolding at a rate faster than geology typically records, scientists have focussed on evidence that is easier to identify: fallout from nuclear tests or plastic residues.

Our Institute has developed several such materials with good properties using plastic residues found in urban waste.

What may be surprising, however, is that biodegradable plastic films do not necessarily represent a long-term solution to the problem of contaminating soil with plastic residues.

The Instituto de Macromoléculas had developed a two-step process for recovering plastic residues which allows to obtain materials with good properties.

In the meanwhile, these degraded, hydrophobic, high surface area plastic residues migrate into the water table and other compartments of the ecosystem causing irreparable harm to the environment [25].

Economic and environmental concerns are propagating interest in polymers that either are derived from alternative sustainable sources such as biomass or are biodegradable so that the risks of plastic residues in the environment are reduced or removed.