Plastic in a sentence

Plastic white pieces are made of white or off-white plastic, and plastic black pieces are made of black or red plastic.

It is a vertically integrated plastic recycling company with a proprietary plastic cleaning tech which converts industrial plastic waste into granules.

Starting from January 1, 2026, a ban will be imposed on single-use plastic products like plastic plates, food containers, tableware, and beverage cups and their plastic lids.

He said entries should be made of reused and recycled materials such as food packaging and wrappers, craft bags, plastic or paper bags, plastic straws, container lids, cardboard, paper, newspaper, magazines and plastic bottles.

If you ask around at companies about recycling, they like to talk about alliances that fight against the flood of plastic and from "ocean plastic," new packaging that is allegedly produced from plastic collected on beaches.

In China, plastic films and bags are the most used type of packaged plastic, followed by PET bottles and plastic cups and other containers.

Could it be plastic, plastic, and more plastic?

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.

While paper is biodegradable and avoids some of the problems of plastic, Taylor says, the huge increase of paper, together with the uptick in plastic trash bags, means banning plastic shopping bags increases greenhouse gas emissions.

Avoid all plastic for carrying, whether it is plastic grocery bags, the plastic strips that keep cans of beer together (and damage animals such as birds to turtles).

He picked up a total of 150 items, including plastic children’s toys, plastic bags, personal hygiene items, plastic food wrappers, cutlery, and containers, as well as car and bicycle parts.

It came in a plastic cup with a plastic lid and a plastic straw.

Plastic is toxic, and the ocean, with an estimated 5 pieces of floating plastic, should not be a dumping ground, though 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the ocean every year.

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.

Commonly found in all-in-one stereos from assorted far-east brands, they used a thin plastic table set in a plastic plinth, no mats, belt drive, weak motors, and often, plastic tonearms with no counterweight.

For instance, plastic surgeon’s classification of beauty is subjective, but the plastic surgeon cannot treat his or her patient without the patient’s consent, therefore, there cannot be any political abuse of plastic surgery.

Plastic training variants H&K offers dedicated training variants of these weapons, designated MP5A4PT and MP5A5PT (PT—Plastic Training), modified to fire a plastic 9×19mm PT training cartridge produced by Dynamit Nobel of Germany.

According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, plastic surgery includes surgical and nonsurgical procedures that enhance and reshape structures of the body to improve appearance and confidence.

An unmentioned ancillary benefit was that a ban on plastic straws would also take a bite out of Alberta’s petrochemical industry, which provides feedstock for all sorts of plastic products.

At least the box is cardboard covered in plastic coating rather than fully plastic like an oversized frozen meal container.