Plastics hit the Big Time in the 1950s, after World War Two. The future and all its technological wonders had finally arrived.
Factories stopped making airplane parts and bombs -- and started making things everyone needed, like plastic dishes, toys, clothing -- even LP records. (Ask a grown-up what those are!)
The stuff was versatile, artificial, disposable... and, Americans found out by the 1990s, recyclable.
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