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Rebecca Altman
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Writing | An Intimate History of Plastics (Scribner)🐌 Orion | The Atlantic | Science | Aeon 📚 PhD Env Sociology— interested in the environmental history of plastic, toxics, pollution, microplastics, plastics treaty rebecca-altman.com/
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ok will learn and try to get running!

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The plastic bag was intro’d in the US at a time when Europeans were already contesting their enviro. consequences. Just one of the many updates added when @Orion_Magazine gave me the chance to rewrite my take on their history. orionmagazine.org/article/plas...

Orion Magazine - From War Machine to Supermarket Staple: A History of the Plastic Bag
Orion Magazine - From War Machine to Supermarket Staple: A History of the Plastic Bag

The history of the plastic carrier bag—the kind so often found caught on a tree branch and flagging in the wind—is a story of persuasion. For over a

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Hi Plastics Friends— Has anyone organized a starter pack on plastics, micro- and nanoplastics, plastics pollution, #plastics@carsoncenter.bsky.social@breakfreeplastic.bsky.social@andresdelcas.bsky.social@anjakrieger.bsky.social@bcarneyalmroth.bsky.social

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The plastic bag was intro’d in the US at a time when Europeans were already contesting their enviro. consequences. Just one of the many updates added when @Orion_Magazine gave me the chance to rewrite my take on their history. orionmagazine.org/article/plas...

Orion Magazine - From War Machine to Supermarket Staple: A History of the Plastic Bag
Orion Magazine - From War Machine to Supermarket Staple: A History of the Plastic Bag

The history of the plastic carrier bag—the kind so often found caught on a tree branch and flagging in the wind—is a story of persuasion. For over a

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This caught my eye — www.ehn.org/amp/shell-pl...

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Book dedication ‼️— John Loadman’s Tears of the Tree — on the history of rubber for (Oxford U Press) 📗

Reads: for Lima — marriage for over 35 years to someone with a passion for rubber, must have been difficult!
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In January of 1946, the editors of the trade pub Plastics were none too pleased that a New Yorker cartoonist had poked fun at plastics. "We do not remember any jokes... about metals... If metals aren't a source of humor, neither are plastics."

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“Soyzic, The Soybean Plastic. It's the perfect plastic at last. It can be bored, punched, stamped, sawed, and in an emergency eaten with a light sauce." I found the cartoon in question via the New Yorker archives. Sept 15, 1945 edition.

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Rebecca Altman
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Writing | An Intimate History of Plastics (Scribner)🐌 Orion | The Atlantic | Science | Aeon 📚 PhD Env Sociology— interested in the environmental history of plastic, toxics, pollution, microplastics, plastics treaty rebecca-altman.com/
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