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Just to infuriate you more: Plastics originally were viewed as a great alternative to such waste - instead of ivory, tortoiseshell, mother of pearl, expensive wood, you could use this human-made, often much stronger, material in different colors.
...and look where we are now.
Those poor savages back then, with tortoise shell particles in their blood probably
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