Modern plastics can stand very high and very low temperatures.

新型塑料能承受很高和很低的温度。

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。

Over the past forty years plastics have revolutionised the way we live.

在过去40年里，塑料完全改变了我们的生活方式。

They manufacture the class of plastics known as thermoplastic materials.

他们生产被称为热塑材料的塑料类制品。

Plastics has been used widely.

塑料已被广泛利用。

We advocate recycling papers and plastics.

我们提倡循环利用纸张和塑料。

Plastics will soften when exposed to heat.

塑料适当加热就可以软化。

Morpher is a bike helmet made from plastics.

Morpher 是一种由塑料制成的自行车头盔。

People often complain that plastics are too durable.

人们经常抱怨塑料过于持久耐用。

Most plastics do not readily conduct heat or electricity.

大多数塑料不易传热或导电。

Anna Du was walking along the beach when she noticed plastics there.

安娜·杜正在沿着海滩散步，她发现那里有塑料。

They make it easy for people to get comfortable with single use plastics.

它们使人们更容易适应一次性塑料。

Rubbish can easily be separated and sorted into plastics, glass and paper.

垃圾可以被简单区分为并归入塑料、玻璃和纸三类。

They were made from hard plastics and that's why they were very breakable.

它们的制作材料是硬塑料，这就是它们极其易碎的原因。

Worse, biodegradable plastics designed to disintegrate, are increasingly common.

更糟糕的是，可生物降解塑料的设计正日益普遍。

She uses a camera along with three different kinds of light to find the plastics.

她用相机和三种不同的光源来寻找塑料。

It has always been a headache to deal with the waste from PET and other plastics.

处理 PET 和其他塑料制成的垃圾一直是一件令人头疼的事情。

That's how she learned that 8 million tons of plastics end up in the oceans every year.

这就是她如何得知每年有800万吨塑料最终流入海洋的方式。

Last September, the 28-year-old Chicago resident resolved to cut plastics out of her life.

去年9月，这位28岁的芝加哥居民决定不再使用塑料制品。

Despite success stories like van Oosten's, preservation of plastics will likely get harder.

虽然有范·奥斯坦这样的成功故事，但塑料制品的保存可能会越来越难。

The models couldn't sit in them, and they even got scratched from the plastics under their arms.

模特们不能坐在里面，他们甚至还被胳膊下的塑料划伤了。

Berry agrees and hopes her team's findings might one day help to break down plastics in landfills.

贝里对此表示同意，并希望她团队的研究结果有朝一日能帮助分解垃圾填埋场中的塑料。

Polymer solar panels differ from most commercial plastics like polythene which are essentially insulators.

聚合物太阳能板不同于如聚乙烯等大多数商用塑料，其本质上是绝缘体。

The analysis shows that plastics, particularly those that break down fast, are contributing to the climate change.

分析表明，塑料正在导致气候变化，尤其是那些快速分解的塑料。

Engineers like ceramics because they can be heated without melting, unlike metals and plastics, though, they are brittle.

工程师们喜欢陶瓷，因为陶瓷在加热时不会熔化，但与金属和塑料不同的是，陶瓷易碎。

The process is possible only with certain materials (plastics, resins and metals) and with a precision of around a tenth of a millimeter.

这个过程只能用特定的材料（塑料，树脂和金属），精度在0.1毫米左右。

They get caught in trees (hence the epithet "Witches' Knickers"), take hundreds of years to decompose and push up demand for oil, used to make plastics.

它们挂在枝头（由此而得“巫婆的灯笼裤”之名），需要数百年才能分解，它们助长石油需求，正是石油用于制造塑料。

The key messages that have been put together for World Environment Day do include a call for governments to enact legislation to curb single-use plastics.

为世界环境日收集的关键信息确实包括呼吁各国政府立法限制一次性塑料的使用。

This might mean implementing policy such as a plastic tax that adds a cost to environmentally problematic action, or banning single-use plastics altogether.

这或许是指要实施像塑料税这种会增加破坏环境行为的成本的政策，或者要全面禁用一次性塑料。