Tupperware Inventor: Chemist Earl Silas Tupper In the 1940’s, people didn’t like plastic products much. They considered plastic dirty, slippery, stinky and wasteful. But chemist Earl Tupper saw a product that could be used to preserve items. Before inventing Tupperware, Earl Tupper was a subcontractor for DuPont’s plastics war production. In the 1940s, he began