polythene

If everyone did that, the demand and production of polythene bags would go down by at least half.

It least here in Norway most such plastic is low density polythene and PET, neither of which are chlorinated.

All of that stuff is invisible, but you notice the gram of polythene wrapping on a cucumber.

Doing this with a regular (IR filter removed) BW camera and a polythene garbage bag is a standard science-fair demo.

Forcibly shaven-bald travelers trudging naked through security carrying their belongings in see through polythene bags will be a common sight.

A polythene bag having few grams of weight can easily carry a load of 5kg or more while costing only a few cents.

I'm pretty sure that the very thin bags provided in supermarkets here for fresh loose produce are also polythene.

It's probably polythene or variant which doesn't really biodegrade and lasts for centuries.

Example: I always get 2 or more times uses out of every polythene shopping bag that I get my hands on.

I read somewhere that a reusable bag emits 3000 times more carbon than polythene bag.

Just today I purchased grapes and the vendor gave me them in a polythene bag.

That's why the leads are wrapped in a polythene bag.

It was supposed to be sandwiched between "Mean Mr Mustard" and "Polythene Pam" but Paul asked the engineer to throw the bit of tape containing the song away.

But it was seen as "too disruptive for industry", so instead: For now, government will ask states to enforce existing rules against storing, manufacturing and using some single-use plastic products such as polythene bags and styrofoam...