{"id":9105,"date":"2016-09-29T12:33:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T20:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/how-fossil-fuels-helped-a-chemist-launch-the-plastic-industry\/"},"modified":"2016-09-29T12:33:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T20:33:44","slug":"how-fossil-fuels-helped-a-chemist-launch-the-plastic-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/how-fossil-fuels-helped-a-chemist-launch-the-plastic-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"How Fossil Fuels Helped A Chemist Launch The Plastic Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/09\/29\/495965233\/how-fossil-fuels-helped-a-chemist-launch-the-plastic-industry?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\">Jess Jiang<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>A century ago, people relied on nature to make basic things: toothbrushes were made of silver, combs were made of ivory, and clothes were made of cotton. In a lot of ways, life as we know it today, is possible because of plastic. We can now afford phones, computers and medical devices in part because of one chemist&#8217;s discovery a century ago. But his descendants have some regrets.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/09\/29\/495965233\/how-fossil-fuels-helped-a-chemist-launch-the-plastic-industry?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"How Fossil Fuels Helped A Chemist Launch The Plastic Industry\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/09\/29\/495965233\/how-fossil-fuels-helped-a-chemist-launch-the-plastic-industry?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A century ago, people relied on nature to make basic things: toothbrushes were made of silver, combs were made of ivory, and clothes were made of cotton. In a lot of ways, life as we know it today, is possible because of plastic. We can now afford phones, computers and medical devices in part because of one chemist&#8217;s discovery a century ago. But his descendants have some regrets.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}