plastic

The pipes should be made of plastic.

这些管子应该是用塑料制作的。

A lot of the plastics that carmakers are using cannot be recycled.

汽车制造商们正在使用的很多塑料制品是无法回收再用的。

But because few could figure out what to do with the plastic, much of it wound up buried in landfills.

但是因为很少有人能想出如何处理塑料，大部分塑料最终被掩埋在垃圾填埋场。

Do they take plastic?

他们收信用卡吗？

Card issuers have so far calculated that absorbing the liability for even big hacks like the Target one is still cheaper than replacing all that plastic.

发卡机构迄今为止的计算结果是，即便是为塔吉特这样的大黑客承担债务，也比更换所有的信用卡要便宜。

A lot of companies have moved into plastics.

许多公司已转而投身塑胶制造业。

A plastic bag was floating in the water.

一个塑料袋在水中漂浮。

Consumers had returned millions of aluminum cans and glass and plastic bottles.

消费者已经退回了数百万个铝罐、玻璃器皿和塑料瓶。

Waterbirds, for example, can choke on plastic bottle rings and get cut by scrap metal.

例如，水鸟会被塑料瓶的环噎住，还会被废金属割伤。