plastic
Example Sentences
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“It needs a ton of work—even plastic rusts in Key West.”
All her basket materials are gathered from nature, and her tools are simple household objects: a large plastic food storage container for soaking her threads and the rusting lid of an old can with different-sized nail holes to strip her reeds to a uniform size.
From Los Angeles Times
And consumer goods companies want to reclaim their bottles and jugs as states adopt extended producer responsibility laws aimed at reducing plastic pollution.
Murphy Road executives say the technology allows them to sort up to 60 tons an hour of curbside recycling from around Connecticut and western Massachusetts into precisely sorted bales of paper, plastic, aluminum cans and other materials.
The country’s second-largest waste firm, Republic is emphasizing plastic recycling and building the third of four planned polymer centers in Allentown, Pa.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
