Plastic
Patented: History of Inventions
00:00
What Kind of Products Are Made From Early Plastics?
Bakelite, the material of a thousand uses, and he trademarked it with the infinity symbol because he was kind of really trying to push it as something that can replace all kinds of things. In 1969, for example, nearly a quarter of plastics went into single use packaging. And today that number is 40%. So it's really grown over the decades, despite the fact that the public has always been a little bit skeptical. The idea of throwing things away is very counterintuitive, right? There's cultures of repair and reuse throughout the world.
Transcript
Play full episode
