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plastic pollution

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Plastic  is material consisting of any of a wide range of  synthetic  or semi-synthetic  organic compounds  that are  malleable  and so can be  modded  into solid objects. Plasticity  is the general property of all materials which can deform irreversibly without breaking but, in the class of mouldable  polymers , this occurs to such a degree that their actual name derives from this specific ability Due to their low cost, ease of manufacture, versatility, and imperviousness to water, plastics are used in a multitude of products of different scale, including paper clips and spacecraft. They have prevailed over traditional materials, such as  wood ,  stone ,  horn  and  bone ,  leather ,  metal ,  glass , and  ceramic , in some products previously left to natural materialsPlastics have many uses in the medical field as well, with the introduction of polymer implants and other medical ...