Plastic is material consisting of any of a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic organic compounds that are malleable and so can be molded into solid objects.

Plasticity is the general property of all materials which can deform irreversibly without breaking but in the class of moldable polymers this occurs to such a degree that their actual name derives from this specific ability.

Plastics are typically organic polymers of high molecular mass and often contain other substances. They are usually synthetic most commonly derived from petrochemicals however an array of variants are made from renewable materials such as polylactic acid from corn or cellulosics from cotton linters.

Due to their low cost ease of manufacture versatility and imperviousness to water plastics are used in a multitude of products of different scale including paper clips and spacecraft. They have prevailed over traditional materials such as wood stone horn and bone leather metal glass and ceramic in some products previously left to natural materials.

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