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DoomsdaysCW

The #plastic paradox: How plastics went from #elephant saviors to eco-villains

Do the benefits of plastics outweigh the costs?

January 23, 2024

"It was 1869, and something needed to be done.

"With the price of #ivory skyrocketing, billiard ball manufacturers were scrambling for an alternative. The prized material derived from #ElephantTusks was being used to craft such things as knife handles, piano keys, dice, dominoes, chessmen, and yes, billiard balls. Now, with elephants growing scarce from overhunting, the wonder material was becoming difficult to procure and unreasonably expensive. After all, one tusk would yield just four or five balls. Leading pool table manufacturer Phelan and Collender offered $10,000 ($225,000 today) to any inventor who could discover a replacement for ivory.

"Albany inventor John Wesley Hyatt answered the call, molding together camphor, nitrocellulose, and alcohol under extreme pressure. His concoction, called #celluloid, was one of the first synthetic plastics. While Hyatt’s creation proved an unwieldy material for billiard balls — insufficiently durable and mildly explosive when struck — it inspired others to formulate something better. A few decades later, American chemist Leo Baekeland came up with the petroleum-derived #Bakelite. It became the first commercially successful synthetic plastic, and very likely saved elephants from extinction.

"More than a century later, this story has morphed into an intriguing irony…With their creation, plastics probably saved countless species — both plants and animals — from extinction. Derived from byproducts of #FossilFuel production, which had previously gone unused, the invention of synthetic plastics meant that humans no longer had to pillage the living #NaturalWorld to produce various products for a technologically advancing global society. Fast-forward to today: Plastics are demonized for eroding the environment and endangering human health, prompting many to wonder if we’d be better off without them."

Read more / listen:
bigthink.com/the-present/plast

#Health #Plastic
#Toxic #ToxicChemicals #Environment #Microplastic #Pollution #Paradox

Big ThinkThe plastic paradox: How plastics went from elephant saviors to eco-villainsPlastics have been an undeniable boon to humanity, but are their environmental and health costs now surpassing their benefits?
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Mammal Among Mammals

Omg children remember when my sister and I drove 9 TUBS of #bakelite, #celluloid & other #vintage #buttons from my mom's #collection/ #hoard to a store in Berkeley last year??

Like please take these buttons.

Celluloid buttons are flammable, btw.

Well, I found another cache of buttons.

My #lgbtq #artist #sober friends in #NC LOVE the little bottle of buttons I brought back so now I really want to #liberate these ones for the gays 🤷‍♀️

#fiberArts
#recoveryPosse
@recoveryposse

So many little bundles packets and baggies of old plastic buttons. Some are very cool shapes and bright colors, there are yellow ones with triangular cutouts visible on the top left.
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Kinomuseum Klagenfurt

Wer #Celluloid sagt, muss auch #Vinyl sagen! Der Film „Jovanka und die anderen“ wurde 1959 in Kärnten u.a. mit Jeanne Moreau & Silvana Mangano gedreht. Jetzt ist es gelungen die Filmmusik von Francesco Lavagnino aufzutreiben. –
Drehorte in Klagenfurt waren u.a. das Kreuzbergl, der Landhaushof
kinogeschichte.at/weg/3.htm
#filmmusik #soundtrack #JeanneMoreau #drehort #museum #klagenfurt #wörthersee #kinomuseum #film #kino #filmgeschichte #austria #kärnten #carinthia #celovec #history #movie @museum

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