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23: Plastic's Past, Imperfect Pitch, and the Dumb History of Generation Naming
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Are There Any Alternatives to Natural Plastics?
Early plastics emerged from the need for explosive materials. The first things we used to use are called nitrocellulose. So in terms of things like horn and tortoise shell and things like that that come from these sort of natural horns. Can you see a potential issue with using those things that we need to use? You need animals. Those animals. Only so many horns, only so many turtles in the world. There are only so many elephants and thingslike that. And we've seen the impact that over hunting has caused for trying to acquire these products.
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