4.While laying plastic film on extruded polystyrene boards, static electricity was generated, igniting the gases, the foam and other flammable materials.
6.Many manufacturers have taken steps in the right direction, phasing out unnecessary plastic films, and switching out plastic tubs and tubes with more easily recyclable materials, or compostable options.
7.To confirm that the worms' chewing alone was not responsible for the polyethylene breakdown, the researchers made some worms into paste and applied it to plastic films.
8.When Oda and his group originally tested the bacteria in the lab, they placed them in a tube with a 2cm-long piece of plastic film weighing a 20th of a gram.