Tupperware
Tupperware, recipiente de polietileno con cierre hermético
- Date
- 1946 · confidence high
- Place
- Leominster, Massachusetts, United States
- Credited to
- Earl Tupper; Brownie Wise (home-party selling)
- People
- 👤 Brownie Wise1913–1992👤 Earl Tupper1907–1983
- Field
- Tools
What it is
Lightweight plastic containers with an airtight seal, sold at housewives' parties. They brought plastic into the kitchen and direct selling as a business model built around women.
What it led to
- Home food storage and plastic in the household
- Direct selling and post-war women's entrepreneurship
- Pollution from single-use plastics
Built on
- Polyethylene1933–1939
- domestic refrigerator
Made possible
- Disposable diaper (Pampers)1961
- plastic food containers
- multi-level marketing