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A typical day of plastics:
The alarm blares, you reach over and slam the
Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS)
snooze button with as much enthusiasm as you can muster in those painful first moments of wakefulness.
Groaning, you pull back your 40%
Polyester
sheets and make your way groggily to the bathroom.
You blink fuzzily as you pop in your
Silicone Hydrogel
contact lenses. Suddenly, everything comes into focus, one step closer to joining the land of the living.
Stifling a yawn, you grab your
Polypropylene
toothbrush handle, squeeze some toothpaste out of the (mostly)
Polyethylene
tube, and scrub the
Polyamide
bristles aggressively against your teeth.
As you appreciate the clean mouth feeling, you smooth out your bed head with a
Polyacetal
hair brush.
Thinking about your day ahead, you pull on your 100%
Nylon
underwear (oh, we saw this material already this morning, but called it
Polyamide
). Next, you don your 78% Cotton / 19%
Polyester
/ 3%
Spandex
(AKA
Polyether/Polyurea
Copolymer
) stretch jeans and 50%
Viscose
(AKA
Cellulose
or
Polysaccharide,
an organic polymer, so not necessarily a plastic) / 32%
Nylon
/ 18%
Acrylic
top.
Minding your health, you grab some berries out of their
Polyester Terephthalate
container and a glob of yogurt scooped out of its'
Polypropylene
cup and throw them in the
Polycarbonate
blender. You transfer the delicious goop into your BPA-free
Polycarbonate/Polyester Copolymer
insulated travel cup.
Settling into your car for the daily commute, you flip up your
Vinyl
(AKA
Polyvinyl Chloride
) visor and flip on your
Polymethyl Methacrylate
lens headlights. You grip the
Vinyl
steering wheel and join the morning traffic. The
Rubber
tires of your car turn reliably as you make your way to work, except for when you employ your
Kevlar
fiber brake pads to arrest forward motion.
At work, you type away on the
Polystyrene
keys of your keyboard while sitting on a
Polybutylene Terephthalate
frame office chair with
Polypropylene
mesh back.
At lunch time, you unpack your meal from your waterproof, insulated,
Neoprene
cooler. Your sandwich is still fresh after being sealed in a
Polyethylene
re-closable bag. You pop open the frangible seal on your multi-layer snack bag, which uses
Ethylene Vinyl Alcohol
as an Oxygen barrier,
Linear Low Density Polyethylene
as an internal sealing layer and
Polyester Terephthalate
on the outside.
In your afternoon meeting you take notes using a
Polycarbonate (PC)
enclosed pen while leaning on the
Epoxy
clear coated conference table.
Relaxing after work, you lounge on your cow-friendly but leather-like
PVC
couch while you channel surf using your
ABS/PC Copolymer
remote control. Hungry, you cook a quick stir-fry in your
Teflon
(AKA
Polytetrafluoroethylene
) coated frying pan. You conscientiously pack up the leftovers in
Polypropylene
Tupperware.
Ready for bed, you jump in the shower for a quick wash. You squeeze some shampoo out of the
Polyethylene
bottle and shave using an
Acrylic
handled razor. You grab the soap from its
Plexiglass
(did you know that's the same thing as
Acrylic
and
Polymethyl Methacrylate
?) dish and rub it into your
Polyethylene
shower sponge to clean your body with the resulting lather. Afterwards, you dry off with your 20%
Polyamide
/ 80%
Polyester
microfiber quick drying towel.
Sliding back into your 40%
Polyester
sheets, you wonder as you drift off to sleep, "
What plastics did I use today?
"
This description just highlights some of the most common plastics we encounter everyday. Many of these products can be made with a variety of different polymers other than those mentioned, and there are many types of polymers not appearing in this answer which are used for non-daily, uncommon, or non-obvious applications.
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