foamed plastic

noun

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Products like single-use packaging, plastic resins, foamed plastic insulation, bottles and containers, among many others, add to global greenhouse emissions. Arkansas Online, 4 July 2022 Products like single-use packaging, plastic resins, foamed plastic insulation, bottles, and containers, among many others, add to global greenhouse emissions. Aniruddha Ghosal, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2022 The foam plastic footwear, known for being easy on the feet if less so on the eyes, is one of the few major retail brands to navigate the Covid-19 era successfully. Inti Pacheco, WSJ, 23 May 2020 This strange era of social distancing will be remembered as the age of home cooking and takeout, and the usual foam plastic to-go packaging of the H.S.P. is a vital part of its identity (though an environmentally unfriendly one). Besha Rodell, New York Times, 7 May 2020 Sponsons made of rigid foam plastic, and affixed to port and starboard sides of the craft, kept it afloat. Eric Adler, The Seattle Times, 30 July 2018

Word History

First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of foamed plastic was in 1945

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“Foamed plastic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foamed%20plastic. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.

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