UNITED KINGDOM - FEBRUARY 17:  Though manufactured in the 1980s, these tupperware boxes represent designs from the 1960s. Known today by its tradename 'Polythene', the history of polyethylene began in March 1933, when a minute amount of a white waxy solid was found on the walls of an experimental high pressure bomb. Thanks to the far-sighted views of a group of ICI Alkali Division scientists, an entirely new range of products were discovered, which have changed the way we live.  (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)