plastic

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Chief Financial Officer Agustin Izquierdo recently told investors that the company’s “sleeping giant” of a product—polypropylene, a plastic derived from propane and used in everything from food containers to car parts—is having a moment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

The astronauts have instead used an alternative system which involves collapsible plastic containers that collect their urine.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

In 1957, Alfred W. Fielding and Marc Chavannes were trying to create a new kind of textured wallpaper by attaching two plastic sheets together, but pockets of air got stuck in between.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Likewise, the camera observes Weinberg’s Tereza with a sensual tactility that I haven’t seen lavished on any actor over 70 who hasn’t spent her golden years at the plastic surgeon.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 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