But the modern era of plastics began a little more than a century ago, when Leo Baekeland, a Belgian chemist who had migrated to the US, invented the first entirely synthetic plastic in 1907.

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There was then the question of what to do with the “defatted, protein-rich” residue that was left after the oil had been extracted. In 1906, Leo Baekeland had made the first synthetic plastic from ...