Resin and non-ferrous metals

In the September 2005 Harper's Magazine, not yet on line, is an excerpt from a piece published in the 2004 Sewanee Review (not found on line, but perhaps available via a library database). Anwar F. Accawi writes about the arrival of canned goods and of articles made of plastic and how they changed the Lebanese community in which he grew up. The library does own The Boy From the Tower of the Moon (call number 956.9204309 Ac). Cans constituted the village's first trash-disposal problem. Items of plastic brought with them entirely different ways of doing things. I can't drink milk these days myself because I can taste the containers. This was not true of glass or of waxed-paper containers, and the taste imparted by plastic-lined cartons was not so off-putting as what the newer plastic containers throw off.