Plastic - Indian Laws - General

Plastic In the book Polymers and Resins by Brage Golding, 1959 Edition, plastic is defined as under : A plastic has been defined in a limited sense as any of a large group of organic substances, whether natural or synthetic, which can be moulded (Plastikos = fit for moulding). The noun `Plastic is usually applied to all polymers which are not considered to be elastomers or fibres; i.e. which exhibit neither the long range elasticity of elastomers nor the very high crystallinity of most fibres. In the engineering sense, however, a plastic is a mixture containing one or more resins compounded with fillers, plasticizers, lubricants, dyes etc. which has been subsequently fabricated. Chamber s Dictionary defines `plastics as generic name for certain natural and synthetic substances which under heat and pressure become plastic and can then be shaped or cast . In Webster s Third New International Dictionary `plastic has been described as under : Plastic - (1) a substance that at some stage in its manufacture or processing can be shaped by flow (as by application of heat or pressure) with or without fillers, plasticizers, rainforcing agents, or other compounding ingredients and that can retain the new solid, often rigid, shape under conditions of use; (2) any of a large group of materials of high molecular weight that usually contain as the essential ingredient a synthetic or semi-synthetic organic substance made by polymerization or condensation (as polystyrene or a phenol- formaldehyde resin) or derived from a natural material by chemical treatment (as nitrocellulose from cellulose), that are molded, cast, extruded, drawn, or laminated under various conditions (as by heat in the case of thermoplastic materials, by chemical condensation in the case of thermosetting materials or polyesters, or by casting during polymerization of monomers) into objects of all sizes and shapes including films and filaments. CHEMICAL AND FIBRES OF INDIA LTD. VERSUS UNION OF INDIA - 1997 (1) TMI 75 - SUPREME COURT