If he saw our polluted oceans today, this inventor may regret inventing plastic. Name that Belgian chemist.

After successfully inventing photographic paper, American-Belgian industrial chemist, Leo Baekeland, discovered thermosetting plastic, veritably launching the plastics industry. Although single-use plastics have become the bane of the environment, Baekeland received numerous honors at the time, even becoming president of the American Chemical Society.

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