PARIS — Before it threatened biodiversity, the oceans and the global food chain, plastics saved lives and transformed societies as a durable, malleable and cheap material.

From the 1950s, plastics enjoyed a positive image "in all areas of life," according to the Plastic Atlas from the Heinrich Boell Foundation.

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