plastic
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Some have even ditched fishing altogether because it is more profitable to sell the plastic waste they trawl out of the river, the world's second-most powerful watercourse after the Amazon.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
Add in a few $15 glasses of house wine in plastic cups and two $36 High Roller tickets, and this package at the neon pink gambling palace Bugsy Siegel built is the real deal.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
In 2017, the DRC passed a law banning the manufacture and import of plastic bags and bottles but the regulation remains largely ignored.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
Moulding their own plastic and automated robotic production sucks power like, well a vacuum cleaner.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
It was still connected to the ring of plastic below it.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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