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Plastic is largely made from oil. So is polyester, which is just another kind of plastic. Most plastic bags are made from polyethylene, which comes from natural gas. Plastic isn't biodegradable, so all the plastic that has ever been made is still around today. Much of it is in landfills, or floating in the sea, where it kills fish and marine animals who swallow it.
Two million barrels of oil are used in the US every day to make plastics.
Scientists are now experimenting to make plastic from organic materials. This will have two advantages:
- The plastic is likely to be biodegradable, meaning it will break down in landfills to its organic origins.
- We won't be so reliant on oil which is becoming more difficult to find and more expensive to provide.
Making plastics from renewable materials will bring us full circle. In the history of plastics, the first thermoplastic (1856) was celluloid (a camphor/nitrocellulose compound). This was derived from two naturally occurring materials.
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