From industrial beginnings in the nineteenth century,plastics have struggled through a hundred and twenty years of glory,failure,disrepute and suspicion on the slow road to public acceptance.

• 工业从十九世纪塑料开始出现以来，挣扎着走过了一百二十多年的缓慢道路，经历过荣耀、失败、丢脸、被人怀疑才终于获得公众的承认。