PET bottles and plastic bags, contact lenses and spectacles frames used on a daily basis, tableware, optical discs, such as CDs and DVDs, refrigerators and TV cabinets, housings of mobile telephones and personal computers, digital cameras and video game units; the list goes on and on... In fact, plastic can be found in a huge variety of different products, and are even used in automobile parts, shinkansen bullet train parts and aircraft parts. Some plastic products are decorated with metal plating or have woodgrain patterns printed on them. If you look around, you' ll discover that plastic is an indispensable part of our daily lives and industry.