Plastic in sentence

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So the process of bacteria eating plastic is actually a natural one.

My research is currently looking at ways of doing this through a series of UV, or ultraviolet, pretreatments, which basically means we blast PET plastic with sunlight.

We do this because sunlight acts a bit like tenderizer on a steak, turning the big, tough, durable bonds in PET plastic a bit softer and a bit easier for my bacteria to chew on.

Ultimately, what my research hopes to do is create an industrial-scale contained carbon-free system, similar to a compost heap, where these bacteria can thrive in a contained system, where their sole food source is PET plastic waste.

Imagine one day being able to dispose of all of your plastic waste in a bin at the curb that you knew was bound for a dedicated bacteria-powered plastic waste facility.

Because people, we possess a pressing problem of plastic pollution.

I began to be fascinated by plastic, so I spent four months making eight plastic blocks perfectly optically transparent, as a kind of release of stress.

This is a Bento box lamp: it's sort of a plastic rice lamp; it's very friendly.

They contain plastic crystals mixed with diamonds, beer cans and royal silks all in one look.

So, in vacuum-formed plastic, in fiberglass, and then even at the level of structural steel, which you think of as being linear and modular.

They handed out these dark plastic viewers that allowed us to look directly at the sun without damaging our eyes.

Could be corrugated metal, a fabric or plastic.

So there are now nine women walking around Boston with re-grown bladders, which is much more pleasant than walking around with a whole bunch of plastic bags for the rest of your life.

It's why companies are blindsided when plastic straws and bags and bottled water go from staples to rejects overnight, and baffled when a change in social mores turns stars into pariahs and colleagues into outcasts: ineradicable uncertainty.

We're putting hundreds of millions of tons of plastic and other trash into the sea.

Half of each year's 100 billion pounds of thermal plastic pellets will be made into fast-track trash.

In spite of deposit fees, much of this trash leading out to the sea will be plastic beverage bottles.

Also, the caps are produced in separate factories from a different plastic, polypropylene.

In spite of my "girly man" hat, crocheted from plastic shopping bags, they shook my hand.

I showed him and Maria a zooplankton trawl from the gyre north of Hawaii with more plastic than plankton.

Here's what our trawl samples from the plastic soup our ocean has become look like.

Now, how do we analyze samples like this one that contain more plastic than plankton?

We sort the plastic fragments into different size classes, from five millimeters to one-third of a millimeter.

Small bits of plastic concentrate persistent organic pollutants up to a million times their levels in the surrounding seawater.

We did hundreds of necropsies, and over a third had polluted plastic fragments in their stomachs.

All the king's horses and all the king's men ... will never gather up all the plastic and put the ocean back together again.

Straining the ocean for plastic would be beyond the budget of any country and it might kill untold amounts of sea life in the process.

The solution, Moore says, is to stop the plastic at its source: stop it on land before it falls in the ocean.

And we are, by physical anthropologists, by many, many studies, the most neotenous, the most youthful, the most flexible, the most plastic of all creatures.

CA: So plastic is thrown into the rivers, and from there, of course, it ends up in the ocean.

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