Wednesday, May 23, 2012

FAMOUS INVENTIONS ... GARBAGE BAGS

 

GARBAGE BAGS

The familiar green plastic garbage bag (made from polyethylene) was invented by Harry Wasylyk in 1950.

Harry Wasylyk was a Canadian inventor from Winnipeg, Manitoba, who together with Larry Hansen of Lindsay, Ontario, invented the disposable green polyethylene garbage bag.

Garbage bags were first intended for commercial use rather than home use - the bags were first sold to the Winnipeg General Hospital. However, Hansen worked for the Union Carbide Company in Lindsay, who bought the invention from Wasylyk and Hansen. Union Carbide manufactured the first green garbage bags under the name Glad Garbage Bags for home use in the late 1960s.

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