Where does plastic come from?

[donnashuggy]

Any ideas?

[nevillesdaughter]

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@donnashuggy wrote:

Any ideas?

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I'm more concerned with where it goes....

Marina.

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

Your store......so I have heard...........lol.

[polksaladallie]

Those of us who have lived in a world before plastic (and all its relatives) was invented will tell you that life was very difficult.  I don't care where it comes from.

[i-need-a-martini]

You must be old polks cause plstic has been commercially available since the 20's.

[polksaladallie]

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

You must be old polks cause plstic has been commercially available since the 20's.

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   Nooooooooo, not that old.   I did not know that.   In what form did it take?   Nothing around when I was growing up.

[spotweldersfriend]

Bakelite-1907. I tried to whip up a batch in the lab and got in trouble.Or was it the nitroglycerin?Bwahahaha.

[polksaladallie]

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

You must be old polks cause plstic has been commercially available since the 20's.

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Well, my memory is recovering.  We had laminex, plastic handles on cupboards, a few other things, but not much.

[nevillesdaughter]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

You must be old polks cause plstic has been commercially available since the 20's.

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   Nooooooooo, not that old.   I did not know that.   In what form did it take?   Nothing around when I was growing up.

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This gives a really good run down on the whole history http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/plastics.htm

Cheers,

Marina.

[lakeland27]

[cherry*135]

Mass production of plastic began in the 1940's.

2009 - The amount of plastic manufactured in the first ten years of this century will approach the total produced in the entire last century.