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We use plastic wrap to ___1___. We put our garbage in plastic bags or plastic cans. We sit on plastic chairs, ____2____ plastic toys, drink from plastic cups, and wash our hair with __3____ from plastic bottles! Plastic does not grow____4___. It is made by ___5___ things together. We call it a produced or ____6_____. Plastic was first made in the 1860s from plants, such as wood and cotton. That plastic was soft and _____7___.The first modern plastics were made in the 1930s. Most clear plastic starts out as thick, ___8___. That plastic coating inside a pan begins as natural gas.Over the years, hundreds of different plastics have___9___. Some are hard and strong. Some are __10___. Some are clear. Some are many-colored. There is a plastic for almost_____11__. Scientists continue to_____12___ plastics. They hope to find ___13___ to use them!