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• n  a lightweight thermoplastic; used especially in packaging and insulation

• Done collecting, he ties the polythene bags together and drops them on a giant scale to weigh them; merchants come all the way from New Delhi and Benares to buy the bags, which he .
• Du Pont announced a cheap, tough new polythene plastic which is sprayed on metal to protect it from corrosion, insulates electrical equipment even under water, can be used for .
• The basis of this one-man boom is a paraffin-like substance which its chief producers, DuPont and Bakelite, call, respectively, polythene and polyethylene.

• polyethylene

News & Articles

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• Coal-to-Olefins Technology in China Could Soon Flood Global Polyethylene Markets
  NEW YORK, March 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- If China's development of coal-to-olefins (CTO) technology continues as planned across the next five years, the global polyethylene (PE) market is likely to be saturated with material through 2019, according to the just-released quarterly: "Platts Shale to Polyethylene Report – Global Outlook to 2023." Polyethylene, also called polythene, is the world's ...
  March 24, 2014 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Tarun Gogoi in Hindustan Times
  Rescue and relief workers have been working on a war footing. We have been trying our best to reach essentials, baby food, medicines, besides tarpaulin and polythene sheets, to the people,Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi told IANS.
• Naveen Patnaik in TopNews
  Instructions have been issued to procure rice from the open market as well as from Food Corporation of India (FCI) to supply relief for the 15 days. Also polythene sheets are being procured from different parts of the country,Patnaik told...
• David Cameron in packagingnews.co.uk
  Cameron said: "To achieve growth like this in a recession is truly impressive. Polythene UK is to be congratulated on this achievement which they obviously richly deserve."