The plastic water bottle is one of the more recent inventions in the history of human packaging. The polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle, the standard clear plastic container that holds bottled water, soft drinks, and a wide range of other liquids, was first patented in 1973 by Nathaniel Wyeth, a mechanical engineer at DuPont. The product moved from laboratory curiosity to mass commercial use over the following decade, and by the mid-1980s PET bottles had largely displaced…
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