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Packaging & Specialty Plastics sales rose 18% to $5.8 billion, reflecting higher polyethylene and functional polymers prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Yet many questions remain about what exactly these infinitesimal flecks of synthetic polymers do to human health, and how they might cause disease.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Most conventional plastics break down extremely slowly because microorganisms struggle to digest the synthetic polymers from which they are made.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Sometimes known as "Doctor Death", he became famous for developing a technique called plastination, by which fluids and fatty tissue in corpses are replaced by rubber and polymers.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Since the plastic was made of polymers, they called it “polapoly.”
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
