Rewrite the story using as many of the suggestions as you think are appropriate. We use it in our kitchens, our cars, our places of work. Plastic is colourful, cheap, and resilient, desirable qualities in things that we use every day. Our homes and workplaces can be kept clean in less time and with less effort because of plastic. The plastic era, only about forty years old, has seen the emergence of many forms of plastic, each one suited to a variety of uses.
Plastic is a petroleum-based product.
Its only other distant rival is aluminum. Together they have taken over the functions previously reserved for more traditional materials - stone, wood, glass, clay, and natural fibre. Plastic is the material of the molecular age. It is light, strong, clean, adaptable, and capable of taking on the new forms required by modern technology. Take the plastic garbage bag, for example.