It is really only in the past 50 years that plastic has become integral to our everyday lives, another point that makes me realize that we can vastly cut back our consumption of plastic if consumers weren't so lazy, and designer thought "smarter" early on in the manufacturing process.

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Wagner is both trained as a mechanical engineer and industrial designer which make him skilled in all practical stages of the design process.

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