Non-biodegradable items

Usage examples of plastics.

Perhaps the Entity had crafted a finer kind of matter more stable than protons, much as clary and other plastics will withstand the rot of a dark forest much longer than mere wood.

Its atmosphere bore no trace of the fluorocarbons or chloride plastics or plutonium that he would have expected to find there.

He caught the whiff of unpleasant smells, plastics and aldehydes and ozone, certainly, but also that of fungi and decaying plant matter and perhaps some other kind of organic life that he could not quite identify.

Its tough, composite plastics could withstand the blast of a hydrogen bomb, as well as shielding against the radiations of distant supernovas.

As with the fields of Iviunir and the other cities of Alumit Bridge, it was built of composite plastics above the roof of the city almost half a mile into the sky.

Jupiter space was rich: Enormous dronescoops skimmed the surface of its atmosphere for the raw materials of the new plastics, and the upper reaches of the planet were rich in other materials, ranging from hydrogen to polypeptides.

Now it had been propped up and resurfaced with plastics and stainless steel and glass, and it was a laboratory.

Doctors there and then here had put him back together, replacing parts shot away or badly shattered with plastics and metal.