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Tupperware was a mainstay of kitchens in the US. Now, the company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Science & Society Picture Library/SSPL/Getty Images
  • Tupperware filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday in the latest sign of trouble for the brand.
  • It made plastic bowls part of American kitchens and multilevel marketing part of American business.
  • Here’s a history of Tupperware, from a Depression-era plastics manufacturer to its modern troubles.

Tupperware was developed by Earl Tupper, who founded a plastics manufacturing company in Leominster, Massachusetts, during the Great Depression.

Earl Tupper. Tupperware

Tupper was born in New Hampshire in 1907. While he wasn’t a great student, he spent a lot of his early life sketching out inventions in a notebook, such as a comb with a belt …