Sentence examples for pounds of plastic from inspiring English sources

We all carry several pounds of plastic and dozens of toxic molecules dissolved in our bodies, he says.

Roughly a gallon of gas can be squeezed out of seven to 10 pounds of plastic, he said.

The bottle is designed that way because it is 22 percent lighter than our original bottle, which will save more than a million pounds of plastic every year.

The scavengers, who are called pickers, can collect two or three hundred pounds of plastic a week, for which they are paid six cents per pound.

Two trillion pounds of plastic now sit in landfills in the United States, accounting for around 25 percent of the nation's total plastic volume.

The reports said the police had seized nearly 50 pounds of plastic explosives with detonation systems attached, as well as six laptop computers and other evidence.

To make it work, MBA Polymers needs to collect tens of millions of pounds of plastics each year.

It's estimated that half of the nearly 600 billion pounds of plastics produced each year go into single-use products.

Oil is the bedrock of the world's plastics industry, which uses it to produce 450 billion pounds of plastics annually for everything from houses to computers.

Since we began putting recycled plastics into our products in January 2014, the company has recycled 4.2 million pounds of plastics into enclosures for 34 products, including new flat-panel monitor models and three Dell OptiPlex desktops.

There are billions of pounds of plastics swirling around in our oceans.