Part 1: What If Plastic Was Never Invented?
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What Are the Motivations for Innovating?
The rise of plastics can be seen with the accompanying rise of industrialization. Elephants and some species of turtles were threatened due to the use of Irene tortoise shell, as I mentioned before. And so, part of the initial motivations that led to the creation of plastics was finding an alternative to some of these things.
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