plastic

Someone finds a plastic straw to point with instead.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

Environmental damage, plastic waste and the conformity of suburbia prompted designers and countercultural communities to imagine other ways of living — up to a point.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Researchers have confirmed 28% of 18 tonnes of plastic nurdles which spilled into the river have been recovered since the spill.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Historic preservationist and former Obama appointee Milford Wayne Donaldson and his wife, Laurie Donaldson, restored the plastic Futuro house asking $1.495 million.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

First is Aunt Melissa, who changes into khakis and pins a plastic name tag to her blouse.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

Yet governments have increasingly pushed citizens to recycle paper, glass and plastics worth less than the cost of collecting and processing them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Multiple studies link the chemicals, plastics and other ingredients often used in diapers with potential health and environmental risks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new way to transform polyethylene, one of the world's most common plastics, into gasoline- and diesel-like fuels.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

The fire then spread quickly, igniting plastics, equipment and bins.

From BBC ● Sep. 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