Talk:Plastic
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Semi-protected edit request on 28 March 2025
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In the second paragraph, change "projceted" to "projected". TomatoCo (talk) 22:35, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
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There's a link missing for Polyethylene. CRS KC (talk) 18:06, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
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Dubious-Discuss
"The success and dominance of plastics since the early 20th century has had major benefits for mankind" extremely dubious unsourced claim DELETE The use of plastics will one day (soon) be looked back at as if we were all collectively retarded 2600:4041:5CD4:9E00:E94A:E07E:D841:1F34 (talk) 05:17, 4 September 2025 (UTC)
Merge proposal
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Merge Commodity plastics into plastic. Reasoning: Commodity plastics are the most important plastics, at least judging from volume and impact on aspects of society. So that material should be central to plastic.--Smokefoot (talk) 00:52, 19 January 2026 (UTC)