Plastic in sentence

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And more than that, it's a confection of different ideas, the idea of plastic, the idea of a laser, the idea of transistors.

Because you've got to include the man who grew the coffee, which was brewed for the man who was on the oil rig, who was drilling for oil, which was going to be made into the plastic, etc.

The person on the assembly line doesn't know because he doesn't know how to drill an oil well to get oil out to make plastic, and so on.

We're looking at a lot of compounds, but recently been quite interested in the flame retardants, the brominated flame retardants that are in many, many things that we use in our everyday life, from the cushions in the chairs we're all sitting on to the plastic casings of our computers, our television sets and so on.

What I'm trying to tell readers is that plastic doesn't really go away; it just continues to wash downstream.

So, I sent them to Boise, Idaho, where they dropped a plastic bottle into the Boise sewer system.

So that was basically a buddy story with a plastic bottle following along.

So a lot of people remember the plastic bottle anyway, but we really talked about marine debris and plastic in the course of that one.

Perhaps even worse is when it finds its way into our oceans, like in the great plastic gyre, where these materials are being mechanically broken into smaller and smaller bits, but they're not really going away.

They used to use a plastic packaging buffer, but we were able to give them the exact same physical performance with our grown material.

You put a bit of black plastic on the side of a building, it'll heat up, and you'll get passive airflow.

I've been working with plastic bags, which I cut up and sew back together as my primary material for my artwork for the last 20 years.

Upon working with the plastic, after about the first eight years, some of my work started to fissure and break down into smaller little bits of plastic.

It's a bad thing that plastic breaks down into smaller little bits, because it's always still plastic.

And my intention was to go out to the gyre, raise awareness about this issue and begin to pick up the plastic, chip it into little bits and cold mold it into bricks that could potentially be used as building materials in underdeveloped communities.

I began talking with people who actually had been out to the gyre and were studying the plastic problem in the marine environment and upon doing so, I realized actually that cleaning it up would be a very small drop in the bucket relative to how much is being generated every day around the world, and that actually I needed to back up and look at the bigger picture.

I'd go to the supermarket and all of my food is packaged in plastic.

All of my beverages are packaged in plastic, even at the health food market.

I'm also concerned about the plastic in the refrigerator, and I'm concerned about the plastic and the toxins that leach from plastic into us and into our bodies.

It's plastic pollution.

And if you really look into it, particularly when it comes to plastic bottles, most of it is only down-cycled, or incinerated, or shipped to China.

It's very easy to pick up a stainless-steel bottle or a glass bottle, if you're traveling and you've forgotten to bring your stainless-steel bottle and fill that up with water or filtered water, versus purchasing plastic bottled water.

But when I got there, I found lots of plastic garbage and other debris.

After the printing process, you can have a solar module which could look like this ... It looks a bit like a plastic foil and actually has many of its features.

You can use it in its plastic form and take advantage of its low weight and its bendability.

It's really not worth the plastic it's made of.

Whiney crappy plastic bungling robot who annoys everybody both on and off screen, Giant spider reduced to a single giant hairy leg pulled by string, actors desperately trying not to look at the camera while mumbling off dialogs...

I could see the screws in the plastic skeleton hands for goodness sakes.

A giant robotic plastic monster emerges and kills Scots!

I had envisioned teams of terrified miners scampering for their lives in the cavernous confines of their workplace, praying that Black Lung Disease would get them before The Grim Reaper exacted his grisly revenge, but instead I got terrestrial twenty-somethings fornicating--and, in one case, defecating--in the woods, a gang of morons with a collective I.Q. that would have difficulty pulling a plastic ring out of a box of Cracker Jacks, much less a buried treasure from an abandoned mine.

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