The Plastic Revolution

Choose the two main ideas of the article.

• Bioplastics are better for the environment.

• Plastic made more products available to a larger group of consumers.

• Plastic is inexpensive and has many positive characteristics.

• The first plastic was quite expensive but gradually decreased in price.

Two hundred years ago, everyday items were made from__________.

• plastics

• natural materials

In many ways, plastic has been a great ________ in society.

• equality

• equalizer

Compared to plastics made from fossil fuels, these bioplastics break down slowly.

• True

• False

Bioplastics are made from algae and, often, corn or sugar cane.

• True

• False

Most plastic is made from___________.

• fossil fuels

• celluloid

Plastic has one major_________: it never breaks down.

• advantage

• problem

In the 1950s, plastic became a popular material for____________.

• art

• furniture

Plastic contributed to the spread of __________because it made it safer.

• electricity

• twentieth-century design

The first type of plastic was invented to replace_________

• photography plates

• ivory