Below you will find example sentences with "plastic waste". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Plastic Waste in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: plastic
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 30
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 27 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 3 start, 8 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "plastic waste" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 27 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as down on plastic waste, of canadian plastic waste turning up, recycling, use and canadian stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with food waste, plastic bags, plastic bag, plastic bags, plastic bag and plastic pollution, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with plastic waste
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
But the state’s first plastic bag ban backfired, resulting in more, not less, plastic waste. (16 words)
Scientists have been inspired by Pacman to create a plastic-eating 'cocktail', which could help eradicate plastic waste. (18 words)
People exchanging plastic waste at a counter set up by Mission Sparks Plastic free team in Khammam on Saturday. (19 words)
The massive impact of plastic straws on the environment has shown to many companies that the plastic waste initiative including more socially aware consumers who are demanding eco friendly products as a step to cut down on plastic waste. (39 words)
True, Japan is a major consumer of disposable plastic products such as plastic shopping bags and product wrappings — but this also means that the nation can do a lot to combat the plastic waste problem. (35 words)
The lawsuit alleges that ExxonMobil misled consumers by promoting recycling as a solution for plastic waste, even though the company knew that plastic would be difficult to eliminate and that many recycling methods were ineffective. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
The massive impact of plastic straws on the environment has shown to many companies that the plastic waste initiative including more socially aware consumers who are demanding eco friendly products as a step to cut down on plastic waste.
It is a vertically integrated plastic recycling company with a proprietary plastic cleaning tech which converts industrial plastic waste into granules.
True, Japan is a major consumer of disposable plastic products such as plastic shopping bags and product wrappings — but this also means that the nation can do a lot to combat the plastic waste problem.
Addressing the press in Accra today, Tuesday, Prof. Frimpong Boateng said that Ghana needs a proper plastic waste management strategy that will drastically reduce plastic waste.
Australians use a lot of plastic, generating more single-use plastic waste per person than any other country except Singapore.
For her part, Greenpeace Philippines Country Director Leah B. Guerrero accused corporations like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé, and Unilever of making consumers believe that plastic recycling is the solution to plastic waste.
Binding global targets to cut plastic production must be at the centre of any continuing negotiations to secure the world’s first treaty to tackle plastic waste, a group of 85 countries has said.
But the state’s first plastic bag ban backfired, resulting in more, not less, plastic waste.
The lawsuit alleges that ExxonMobil misled consumers by promoting recycling as a solution for plastic waste, even though the company knew that plastic would be difficult to eliminate and that many recycling methods were ineffective.
Scientists have been inspired by Pacman to create a plastic-eating 'cocktail', which could help eradicate plastic waste.
The most important thing people can do to eliminate the threat of plastic ingestion for marine wildlife is to prevent plastic waste from ever even making its way into the ocean, the researchers note.
This is because single-use plastic bag garbage is estimated at about 200,000 tons a year, which is a very small percentage of the roughly 9 million tons of plastic waste produced here annually.
After several instances of Canadian plastic waste turning up overseas in places like the Philippines and Malaysia, CBC's Marketplace wanted to track the lifecycle of Canadian plastic.
After several instances of Canadian plastic waste turning up overseas in places like the Philippines and Malaysia, CBC's wanted to track the lifecycle of Canadian plastic.
As we begin ‘Swachhata Hi Seva’ and pledge to reduce single use plastic, I sat down with those who segregate plastic waste.
Every month, EcoPost uses approximately 20 tonnes of plastic waste, utilising dirty plastic to make a product that saves trees.
However, plastic products allowed by Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016 and which are recyclable will not be banned, he added.
People exchanging plastic waste at a counter set up by Mission Sparks Plastic free team in Khammam on Saturday.
Selfridges was one of the first major retailers to take on the problem of plastic waste when, in 2015, its Project Ocean partnership with ZSL became about plastic in the ocean.
The decision to rid dining halls of plastic straws is just the start of the University of New Haven’s initiative to cut down on plastic waste.