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Part 1: What If Plastic Was Never Invented?

Geography Is Everything

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Synthetic Plastics - The First Human-Made Plastic

The first human-made plastic, polystyrene, was invented in 1839. Parkinson's is credited with being the precursor to modern synthetic plastic. The middle class seems to rise and fall during this period of industrialization.

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