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Plastic in sentence

758 examples of Plastic in a sentence

Yeah, there is a garbage truck of plastic entering the ocean every minute of every hour of every day.
And countless birds and animals are dying just from encountering plastic.
We are experiencing the fastest rate of extinction ever, and plastic is in the food chain.
Even if the Ocean Cleanup project, beach plastic recycling programs or any well-meaning ocean plastic company was a hundred percent successful, it would still be too little, too late.
We're trending to produce over 300 million ton of plastic this year.
Reportedly, 80 percent of ocean plastic is coming from those countries that have extreme poverty.
We are the world's largest chain of stores for the ultra-poor, where everything in the store is available to be purchased using plastic garbage.
And even the plastic has a new sense of value.
And that plastic we collect, and we add value to, we sort it, we remove labels, we remove caps.
Now, that plastic we sell.
We sell it to suppliers of great brands like Marks and Spencer, who have commissioned the use of social plastic in their products.
Or like Henkel, the German consumer-goods company, who are using social plastic directly into their manufacturing.
Now buy shampoo or laundry detergent that has social plastic packaging, and you are indirectly contributing to the extraction of plastic from ocean-bound waterways and alleviating poverty at the same time.
But plastic neutrality invests in recycling infrastructure where it doesn't exist.
And what's common here is that social plastic is money.
Social plastic is money, a globally recognizable and tradable currency that, when used, alleviates poverty and cleans the environment at the same time.
It's not just plastic.
It's not recycled plastic, it's social plastic, a material whose value is transferred through the lives of the people who encounter it, rich and poor.
Humans have produced over eight trillion kilograms of plastic, most of it still here as waste.
But preventing ocean plastic could be humanity's richest opportunity.
It's just a hollow piece of plastic with an antenna that swivels around.
I don't need a plastic bag."
A state-of-the-art airplane factory rotating metal wax at fixed metal, or you maybe melt some plastic.
That could be plastic surgery, known as "revirgination," it could be vials of blood poured on the sheets after sex or fake hymens bought online, complete with theater blood and a promise to "kiss your deep, dark secret goodbye."
And with this, we picture something fragile, something easily destructible, something you can rip through, perhaps like a sheet of plastic wrapping.
The seal is broken, and unless we change the plastic, it won't get back to its intact state.
NDB: But the hymen is nothing like a piece of plastic you can wrap around your food, or a seal.
They're not allowed to put more than 10 pounds of sand in a 50-gallon plastic bag.
They have thousands and thousands of plastic bags.
The object on the right is made from a confection of different substances, from silicon and metal and plastic and so on.
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