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Entertain Outdoors With Shatter-Resistant Plastics

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Can I Recycle Packing Bubbles and Shipping Pillows?

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Companies Use Ocean Plastics to Make Products for Eco-minded Consumers

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Reducing Food Waste at Home Starts at the Grocery Store

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Tips For a Greener Garden

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Building a Tiny House with Plastics

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Mini Horse Overcomes the Odds with Help from Plastic Prosthesis

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7 Facts about Plastics Recycling that May Surprise You

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Protecting Our Heroes

See how advanced safety gear protects our heroes

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The New Shape Of Shoes

This major shoe company is making lighter, customizable, breathable shoes using 3-D printing and plastics. Now for professional athletes… and soon the rest of us.

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An Iconic Movie Prop

Sometimes it’s the simplest innovations that we remember… like a plastic phone in the shape of a hamburger, the movie prop that started a craze.

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Hollywood Props

Cyborgs. Robots. Light sabers. Space ships. Phasers. These pricey movie props are hot collector items (mostly) made possible by plastics.

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New Advance In Eye Protection

Self-tinting contacts? Like some sunglasses, these contact lenses (hi-tech plastics) will darken when exposed to sun.

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Sip. Recycle. Repeat.

Music festivals. Record labels. Cameos in music videos. This wine sold in recyclable, reusable plastic cups is taking the music & festival circuit by storm.

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Fishing Plastics Out Of The Ocean

Feel good fashion... A big clothing company now makes shirts with recycled ocean plastics. Even the buttons and packaging are made with recycled materials.

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Waste To Furniture

Furniture made from used cans, packaging, car bumpers, and plastic bottles? Yup. And hi-tech manufacturing creates hollow, light, strong tables & benches using less material.

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This Idea Is Really Blowing Up

Pop up restaurants? Sure… but pop up hotels? Super lightweight plastic “bubble hotels” can go where others cannot. With views like no others!

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Plastic Tape Helping Pros And Amateurs...

Growing in popularity, “kinesiology” tape – often made with elastic synthetic (plastic) fibers – helped a pro quarterback make it to the big game. Can it help us lesser athletes, too?

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A Swimming Pool In The Sky…

Have you seen that pool hanging off the 40th story of a building in Houston? Is it really “glass” bottomed? Nah, it’s acrylic (plastic!), designed to withstand hurricane forces.

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Can We Double Plastic Film Recycling by 2020?

Use Less Stuff with These 10 Recycling Tips See new ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle every day of the year.

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Take a look at how you can pack a truly memorable lunch—with a little help from plastics.

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