plastic

Soybean oil went into Ford paints, and soybean meal into molded plastic parts.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

"We were trying to develop technologies for plastic upcycling to make more valuable products. We thought, why not focus on making food? Because plastic is carbon and food is carbon," explains Associate Professor Lahiru Jayakody.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

The sound design of “Voices” is raw and the rumored $50,000 budget so strapped that minor period piece inconsistencies like cheap plastic trash cans sneak into the frame.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

Mushroom-pickers, who carry their wares in bright plastic buckets strapped to their backs, wait outside behind a folding gate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

So he’d taken the bus to the station and sat in a hard plastic chair for five long hours until it was the time he was meant to get back to his aunt’s.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

Acrylamide is also used in paper and plastics production, the report notes.

From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026

Cars and batteries and plastics and metals and other things were incinerated, and a toxic plume traveled for miles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

He added: "The streets are littered with plastics and broken glass. I pity neighbours of the park and surrounding streets who see their driveways and gardens used as toilets."

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

A 2019 study by the University of Tasmania, published in Scientific Reports, found balloons were "the highest-risk plastic debris item" for seabirds, carrying a mortality risk 32 times higher than ingesting hard plastics.

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 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