Plastic in sentence

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Everything came in plastic, in cardboard.

I just basically gnawed all this stuff out of plastic.

This is home improvement: putting plastic tarps on your roof.

Talk about more plastic bags than plankton.

We connected it to a high-voltage source, and we placed it near a transparent piece of rubber that was prestretched onto a plastic frame.

When we switched on the voltage, the rubber deformed, and just like our biceps flexes our arm, the rubber flexed the plastic frame.

One of their R&D engineers was working on a way to make plastic stiffer.

AlterEgo has sensors, embedded in a thin plastic, flexible and transparent device that sits on your neck just like a sticker.

It’s an increasingly common sight in hospitals around the world: a nurse measures our height, weight, blood pressure, and attaches a glowing plastic clip to our finger.

How can a plastic clip learn something about our blood… without a blood sample?

By 2050, researchers estimate that there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish.

Despite our best efforts, only nine percent of all plastic we use winds up being recycled.

And even worse, plastic is incredibly tough and durable and researchers estimate that it can take anywhere from 500 to 5,000 years to fully break down.

So how did we wind up with so much plastic waste?

And my research shows it may even be able to help us with our plastic pollution problem.

Now, considering that we humans produce 300 million tons of new plastic each year, I'd say that our plastic numbers are looking pretty comparable to bacteria's.

So, after noticing this and after learning about all of the creative ways that bacteria find food, I started to think: could bacteria in plastic-polluted environments have figured out how to use plastic for food?

I would feed my bacteria polyethylene terephthalate, or PET plastic.

PET plastic is the most widely produced plastic in the world.

It's used in all sorts of food and drink containers, with the most notorious example being plastic water bottles, of which we humans currently go through at a rate of one million per minute.

So, what I would be doing, is essentially putting my bacteria on a forced diet of PET plastic and seeing which, if any, might survive or, hopefully, thrive.

See, this type of experiment would act as a screen for bacteria that had adapted to their plastic-polluted environment and evolved the incredibly cool ability to eat PET plastic.

These bacteria had figured out how to eat PET plastic.

My bacteria, however, have figured out how to do this digestion process to big, tough, durable PET plastic.

Now, my bacteria have a special enzyme called a lipase that binds to big, tough, durable PET plastic and helps break it into small chunks of sugar that my bacteria can then use for energy.

So basically, PET plastic goes from being a big, tough, long-lasting pollutant to a tasty meal for my bacteria.

And I think, given the current scope of our plastic pollution problem, I think it sounds pretty useful.

The statistics I shared with you on just how much plastic waste has accumulated on our planet are daunting.

After all, if plastic is everywhere and these bacteria eat plastic, isn't there a risk of these bacteria getting out in the environment and wreaking havoc?

These are naturally occurring bacteria that have simply adapted to their plastic-polluted environment and evolved the incredibly gnarly ability to eat PET plastic.

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