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Part 1: What If Plastic Was Never Invented?
Geography Is Everything
What Is a Polymer?
Polymer is a chemical class of materials that make up modern plastics, but there are natural polymers as well. A lot of synthetic polymers are plastic replaced. There's silk which comes out of like a bug or something? Yeah, it comes out of silk worm, which is actually a caterpillar,. That feeds mostly on mulberry leaves from a mulberry tree. Shellac - the original shellac is a resin secreted by an insect, and was originally used as a natural electrical insulator. And then amber... It's sort of, you know, they find ... Oh, wait, Jurassic Park?Yeah. Amber preserves things inside because it can protect or preserve something. Star
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