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It was not that long ago, and I would call "not being headed for extinction" better than the alternative. In the West, plastic use became widespread in homes a
by OutOfHere 2y ago
It was not that long ago, and I would call "not being headed for extinction" better than the alternative.
In the West, plastic use became widespread in homes and with foods in the 1950s. In most other countries it took until the 1980s.
- TylerE 2y agoFalse. Polyester fabric has been in widespread use since the 1920s and was first patented in Britain. Methinks you are using a rather “no true Scotsman” definition of plastic .
- OutOfHere 2y agoPolyester use took off in the 1950s and 1960s, but it declined into the 1970s and 1980s. It took off again in the late 1990s. As such, the intervening period that didn't see major use of it was within my lifetime.
- TylerE 2y agoNo true Scotsman. You said “before plastic” not “during a lull” and in many case there weee many other plastics in widespread use throughout all those decades.
- userbinator 2y ago[flagged]