Sentence examples for plastic takes from inspiring English sources

Ministers have suggested that the rise in sales of bags for life could be having a detrimental effect on the environment if they are being disposed of incorrectly, as the thicker gauge of plastic takes longer to degrade.

That's because most plastic takes centuries – perhaps even longer – to completely disappear.

It is widely known that plastic takes several hundred to thousand years to decompose, releasing toxic substances in the process.

(Although these will, indeed, come from plastic taken from across the oceans of the world).

Until the 1930s it made buttons from cow horn imported from Argentina, but when plastic took over it switched to testing machines.

The first major application of the new plastic took place during World War II, when PMMA was made into aircraft windows and bubble canopies for gun turrets.

The collection is a collaborative project with G Star Raw, turning plastic taken from the world's oceans into denim and apparel.

The View-Master, a little stereoscope made of plastic, took reels of tiny Kodachrome transparencies that one flicked through by pressing a lever.

The revolution from wood to plastic took place in the nineteen-seventies, in a factory in Boston and another in Baltimore owned by a lacrosse all-American who had carried a wooden stick.

If your plastic took a real pounding in the run-up to Christmas, and/or you went on a January sales spending spree, now is the time to take stock and have a cold, hard look at your finances.

Mackinney-Valentin said it resonates with customers when stars like Emma Watson grace the red carpet wearing a Calvin Klein dress made of recycled plastic bottles or Pharrell Williams performs in denim pants made from plastic taken from the world's oceans.