Not everything is bad in the world of plastics, since its invention and development between the end of the 19th century and throughout the 20th century put an end to the uses of coral, ivory or the shell of large turtles by being able to imitate these materials and substantially reducing the killing of the animals from which they came.
Another of the military inventions that were applied in costume jewelry was Nitinol, alloy formed, initially by Nickel and Titanium, with shape memory and discovered by the US Naval Ordnance Laboratory.
The plastics industry benefited from the research and development of materials that took place during the First and Second World Wars and that, for better or worse, would affect life and the environment, probably forever.
Welcome to the atomic era, when Russia and the USA had the whole world in suspense with their nuclear pulse and with the struggle for the conquest of Space.
