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

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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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@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.

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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.

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.