Science 101 Dec 2013 | Página 6

PLASTIC Nancy Tomoum FACT every second around a hundred lightning bolts strike the Earth “Plastics now make up one of largest manufacturing industries in the world. In the US alone plastics produce approximately $380 billion worth of products each year.” Most of the products in our home use p l a stic in some form or other like. It is used in the internal components of our food packaging, mobile phones, pillows and TV. This mate rial has the ability to withstand high temperatures, change shape and be different colors. Plastic is one of the popular accidental inventions that changed the whole world. From the first accident, different forms of plastic are invented after several procedures from different inventors in order to create hard plastic. Before the invention of plastics, people 5