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• One day one of the flasks refused to come clean, no matter how hard Wiley scrubbed, and no matter what cleaning solutions he used. The flask had been used in an experiment searching for better dry cleaning solvents. Finally Wiley peeled a thin film of polymers away from the glass. He showed this film to his boss, John Reilly. Reilly saw potential in the material and put his best chemists on the project. The film needed a name, and Reilly thought of his wife, Sarah, and his daughter, Ann and named the product after them: Saran.

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• The quince tree grows in a variety of locations in the Mediterranean region, and it bears a fruit that looks like a cross between an apple and a pear. The quince fruit is hard and sour, but when it is peeled and then roasted, baked, or stewed, the flesh of the fruit becomes sweeter, though it remains pungent. It can be added to applesauce or turned into wine or brandy. Also, quinces that are slowly boiled for a long time with honey will gel into a thick, sticky substance due to the pectin in the • After Thomas died in 1903, his son Charles Welch peel. This quince jelly was popular during sea voyages followed in his footsteps, but instead of selling it to because it kept well and supplied sailors with vitamin churches, he began to sell it to the general populace, C. hawking it as a healthy fruit drink. By 1909 Charles • According to legend, when a ship ran aground off the Welch was selling a million gallons a year. coast of Scotland near Dundee, its load of oranges was • When Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan going to spoil, so the local residents had a heyday with served grape juice instead of wine at a high-toned the windfall. One enterprising woman named Janet diplomatic dinner in 1914, the newspapers had a field Keiller, wanting to preserve the oranges before they day and Welch’s juice got much free publicity. rotted, experimented with making quince jelly with oranges instead of quince, dropping chunks of orange • In 1914, the U.S. Navy forbade the consumption of alcoholic beverages on board ships, and supplied peel into the mix. the sailors with Charles’ grape juice instead. Charles • Whether or not the story is true, Dundee, Scotland be- added jellies and jams to his product line and the encame the headquarters for production of this type of tire supply of “Grapelade” (grape marmalade) was orange jam when a factory was opened there in 1797. purchased by the U.S. Army during World War I. Since then, oranges have become associated with the When soldiers returned home, they asked their local jelly more than quinces, although it is also made with stores to stock the products. limes, grapefruit, and strawberries. • When Prohibition kicked in, sales of the grape juice • This jam-like treat got its name from the Portuguese really took off. Today Thomas and Charles Welch’s word for quince, “marmelo” a word that derives from last name is synonymous with juice, jam, and jelly. the Latin word “melimelum” meaning “honey apple.” • Welch’s Food Inc. is still located in Concord, MasToday it’s called marmalade. sachusetts, and has been owned and operated by the • The widespread mass marketing of jelly in the U.S. be- National Grape Cooperative Association since 1956. gan with Thomas Welch, who was a dentist, a minister, In addition to a variety of juices, jellies, and jams, and prohibitionist in the 1800s. He felt it was hypocriti- they now also manufacture several kinds of soda pop cal for churches to oppose the consumption of alcohol as well as fruit snacks. while still offering real wine for communion.

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• In the early 1960s, Sten Thulin was working for the Celloplast company in Sweden when he developed a method of forming a one-piece bag by folding, welding and die-cutting a flat tube of plastic in order to turn out a simple plastic bag with handles. Patented in 1965, Celloplast had a monopoly on the iconic “T-shirt” plastic grocery bag. • In the U.S., Exxon Mobile challenged Celloplast’s U.S. patent, and it was overturned in 1977. The first plastic bags showed up in stores in 1979, and by the 1980s, many firms in the U.S. were manufacturing them. • Kroger began offering shoppers the choice between “paper or plastic” in 1982, followed by Safeway. Because 1,000 plastic bags cost $24, while the same number of paper bags cost $30, they caught on quickly. By the end of 1985, 75% of supermarkets were offering plastic bags to their customers. • Many customers still preferred paper bags because they would stand upright in the trunks of cars. Plastic held just 25% of the market, but within the next decade, the plastic bag had captured 80% of the market. Plastic bags were waterproof, able to contain up to 1,000 times their own weight, and easier to carry. • Today Americans use around 100 billion plastic bags each year, amounting to almost one bag per person per day. Laid end-to-end, they could circle the equator 1,330 times. Worldwide, it’s estimated that 1 trillion bags are used annually. • The bags are made from high-density polyethylene, or #2-type plastic, which is the same kind used to produce many types of plastic bottles. #2 plastic can be recycled and re-used, but it does not break down in the environment. • In 2007, San Francisco became the first U.S. city to ban plastic grocery bags, followed by the entire state of California in 2016. ...continued

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• Mumbai, India, banned plastic bags because they block storm drains and made monsoon flooding Answer: worse. Dell. Ireland put a 15¢ fee on every plastic bag, and use of the bags dropped by 94% A VERY LARGE NUMBER within weeks. When China banned plastic bags • Edward Kasner was a mathematician. altogether, it’s estimated that they saved In 1.61938 milhe was asked to come up with a name for a lion tons of oil in the first year. very large number: the numeral one, followed • Only 5% of plastic are recycled in the U.S. byabout a hundred zeros. bags He asked his two young nephews what name they would suggest. PLASTIC BOTTLES • Nine-year-old suggested a name • The polyethylene Milton terephthalate (“PET”) bottle out of the funnies. A cartoon strip character was invented in 1973. Prior to 1973, soda pop very popular. Milton andnamed otherBarney liquid was items were packaged inchose glass Barney’s last name for the number. bottles, which were heavy and prone to breaking • Kasner announced theisnew name the that big during transport. PET a type of for plastic number in his next book, altering the spelling. does not explode under the pressure of contain• Sixty years later, Larry Page and Sergey Brin ing carbonated beverages. developed a new internet searchcontainers engine. Other • Today about a third of beverage sold search engines searched each webpage and in the U.S. are made of PET, otherwise known ranked them according to how many times a as specific plastic type #1 at recycling centers. Recycled term appeared on them, but Page and PET containers used to make synthetic fleece Brin designedare their search engine to search for clothing, straps, paintbrush bristles, sleeping bag the specific term and then find out how many filler, t-shirts, furniture, andtonew links there carpets, were that led back thatbottles. page, Still, onlyresulted about 25% PETsearch bottlesengine. are recycled. which in a of better • 55 billiondecided PET bottles could have been recy• They theythatneeded a name that reflected how many websites the search cled end up in American landfills each year. The engine was searching. tookwould the name energy contained in thoseThey bottles have of enough Edward energy Kasner’s veryand large number, only been to heat light 1.2 million they misspelled slightly, so ithave ended up being homes for a year. itThey could been made spelled exactly the same way the cartoon into enough polyester to knit three sweaters for character Barney spelled his last name. What’s every resident of the U.S. It takes only five reit called? (Answer at bottom of page) cycled two-liter bottles to make enough fiberfill COMPUTER FACTS for one ski jacket. • In 1981 Bill Gates said, of memory • Americans recycle 23% of “640 their kb glass, 34% of ought to be enough for anybody.” metals, and 55% of paper, but only 7% of plastic. • Moore’s Lawrecycle states that performance People in Japan 77%computer of their plastic. States doubles every 18 to 24 months, and ever since with bottle bills have recycling rates double the 1971, this has been true. amount of states without them. Michigan charges • HP, Microsoft, and and Apple were 10¢ forGoogle, every PET bottle sold, 90% are all restarted in garages. turned. California recovers 75% of their bottles. Answer: Google, from googol.

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