Talk:Plastic

The content of Commodity plastics was merged into Plastic on 5 February 2026. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. For the discussion at that location, see its talk page.

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Dubious-Discuss

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"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)Reply

Merge proposal

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The result of the discussion was merge as unopposed. Remember that any editor can perform a merge without discussing it if it's uncontroversial. FaviFake (talk) 16:23, 5 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

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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)Reply

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History

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The history section needs expansion, especially for the period after WWII. Kdammers (talk) 19:25, 1 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Graphs affecting readability

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Hi, the format of the graphs in the "applications" section make it difficult to scroll/read the page. Can they be reformatted? Garbagecowboy (talk) 20:08, 25 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

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