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Life Without Plastic (It’s Not Fantastic)

Story of the Week with Joel Stein

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The Origins of Plastic

The first commercial use of plastic was to replace billiard balls with elephant ivory. In the 70s, things got really ugly and that's where we were just using things and tossing them away after one use. The real solution has to come from government policy, corporate policy,. New inventions like new types of bioplastic are actually promising.

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