plastic
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Other parents have complained on social media about finding bits of blue plastic in Once Upon a Farm’s bars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
But, while it isn't the diesel grunt that can win matches on its own, "plastic energy" is still something.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
Another is located within the city itself, where plastic pollution is affecting the environment.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026
For example, building materials and boxed water — which, Arnaquq-Baril says, was chosen over plastic bottles to leave “less toxic garbage in the Arctic” — were shipped by sealift.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
His teddy bear wasn't good biting, because it was too soft; but there was a hard plastic pretzel that he chewed on quite a bit.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
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U.S. manufacturers in October pumped out the most goods — plastics, computers, electrical equipment and so forth — in five years as a growing economy and a revolution in artificial intelligence stoked demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
They are buying massive amounts of chips, computers, electrical equipment, power turbines and all the construction materials need to build data centers, such as steel, concrete, advanced plastics and rare-earth metals.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
“It’s a foundational study about the chemistry of plastics interacting with the most common chemical, water, and it’s important because it really does show that these things are capable of generating hydroxyl radicals,” Campen said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Most conventional plastics break down extremely slowly because microorganisms struggle to digest the synthetic polymers from which they are made.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Conformable to the Orgota law that each “unit” must have employment, I work from Eighth Hour to noon in a plastics factory.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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