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Title: Plastic Waste and its Mangement
Volume Number: 32
Issue Number: 2
KeyWords: Biotechnology, Environment, Plastic Waste
Year of Publication: 2018
Month of Issue: June
Language: English
Pages: 16
Details: Plastic is a word that originally meant “pliable and easily shaped.” It only recently became a name for a category of materials called polymers. The word polymer means “of many parts,” and polymers are made of long chains of molecules. Over the last century and a half humans have learned how to make synthetic polymers, sometimes using natural substances like cellulose, but more often using the plentiful carbon atoms provided by petroleum and other fossil fuels.
