plastic

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Plastic sheeting is taped across all the windows and there's a large padlock hanging on the door handle.

From BBC

Messages from that trial reveal Marsalek has had plastic surgery to alter his appearance as well as details of his life as a fugitive.

From BBC

If there's one material that defines modern life more than any other, it's plastic: present from the moment we're born in newborn stool, in product packaging, in the soil beneath our feet and the air we breathe.

From Barron's

"Half of all plastic ever produced was since 2007," the year the iPhone debuted, she told AFP in an interview.

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Enck's book traces the history of plastic: from its earliest incarnation in 1909, when Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland invented Bakelite, through the "myth" of plastic recycling promoted by industry from the mid-20th century onward.

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