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Plastic types and uses

Table of Plastic types and uses.

Examples of how the most common plastics are used. The table is ordered by the quantity produced (from highest to lowest volume).

Image from Plastics in the Environment: Te Ao Hurihuri – The Changing World. Royal Society Te Apārangi

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