IMPORTANT TRUTHS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT PLASTIC

EVERY YEAR, OVER 6,000 PEOPLE ARE TREATED IN

EMERGENCY ROOMS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED

STATES FOR INJURIES THEY RECEIVED WHILE

TRYING TO OPEN PLASTIC PACKAGING

RWANDA WAS THE FIRST COUNTRY TO BAN

PLASTIC BAGS

CELLOPHANE ISN'T ACTUALLY PLASTIC. IT IS MADE

FROM CELLULOSE AND BIODEGRADES IN ABOUT

3 MONTHS IF IT IS BURIED

THE TOY PLASTIC WHISTLES THAT USED TO BE FOUND

IN CEREAL BOXES WERE THE FIRST TOOLS USED BY

HACKERS (THIS WAS BEFORE THE COMPUTER AGE

BACK WHEN PEOPLE HACKED PHONES)

THE NEW CAR SMELL IS CAUSED BY AN ADDITIVE

IN PLASTIC CALLED PLASTICIZERS. SOME

VARIATIONS ARE ACTUALLY ENDOCRINE

DISRUPTORS

THOSE LITTLE PLASTIC TABLES IN THE MIDDLE OF

YOUR PIZZA ARE CALLED "PIZZA SAVERS"

THERE IS A TYPE OF PLASTIC CALLED GALALITH

THAT CAN BE MADE FROM MILK. IT IS

BIODEGRADABLE, ODOURLESS, AND

NON-FLAMMABLE. UNFORTUNATELY IT CAN'T

BE MOULDED ONCE IT IS SET

IN THE 1960’S GENERAL ELECTRIC CAME UP WITH A

WAY TO BRING AN ASTRONAUT BACK TO EARTH IN

AN EMERGENCY. IT CONSISTED OF A PLASTIC BAG

FILLED WITH FOAM, A ROCKET, AND A PARACHUTE

SUBWAYS IN BEIJING ALLOW TRAVELLERS TO PAY

THEIR WAY WITH PLASTIC BOTTLES TO E

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