plastic
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You can also use a resealable plastic baggie with the corner snipped as a makeshift piping bag.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
After a briefing in a nearby car park, we troop down to the water's edge clutching white plastic buckets to begin the hunt.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Nosek wore flannel pajamas around the office, munched on fresh blueberries from their plastic clamshell containers, and built a soundproof, blacked-out box to improve his sleep.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Factories that would normally delay payment started putting down cash upfront "because they were so eager to secure material", said Rizq Yousif, who mainly recycles PET, the plastic widely used in beverage and food packaging.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
A few seconds later, the black plastic went orange as the flame grabbed it.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
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Downstairs, men sort plastics, cardboard, paper, metals and glass into neat piles destined for workshops and factories.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Since plastics are made from polymers, researchers have been investigating whether these enzymes, or the microbes that produce them, can be embedded directly into plastic materials.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
Namely, how much microplastic is absorbed by the body and how much accumulates over time given that researchers think some level of the plastics exit the body.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
For example, gold palladium catalysts are used to produce vinyl acetate, an essential ingredient in many plastics and other products.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
Not so long ago he let himself dream of Berlin and its great scientists: Fritz Haber, inventor of fertilizer; Hermann Staudinger, inventor of plastics.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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