It's going to go straight into a hole in the ground, because the hard plastics that make up things like the big six pint milk bottles have some value.

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And then there's glass and hard and soft plastics, and paper, and card and tin foil.

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Over the years, he's been working on a technique called "plastination" that replaces the water and fat inside a body's tissues with polymers -- sticky, hard-drying plastics.

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Hard and hollow plastics are giving way to softer feeling and more elegant-looking surfaces, car seats are becoming increasingly supportive and comfortable and dashboards are being reconfigured in novel ways to accommodate an array of connectivity and infotainment features.

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The device is also made out of 65% recycled plastics, and comes with a 0-watt hard switch that lets you cut power completely off from the monitor for zero power consumption.

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Workers in apparel, rubber, plastics, furniture, primary metals and transportation equipment are especially hard hit by oil price increases.

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