Plastic Planet

Today, plastics are everywhere—from the packaging that wraps our food to the devices in our hands and even the fibers in our clothing. But just over a century ago, plastics did not exist in the way we know them today. Their arrival in the United States marked the beginning of one of the most transformative material revolutions in human history. Before Plastics: A World of Natural Materials Before synthetic plastics, people relied entirely on natural materials such as wood, me