Harry Wasylyk
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Harry Wasylyk
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Harry Wasylyk Sr. was a Canadian inventor from Winnipeg, Manitoba, who together with Larry Hanson of Lindsay, Ontario, invented the disposable polyethylene garbage bag in 1950. Garbage bags were first intended for commercial use rather than home use – the bags were first sold to the Winnipeg General Hospital. However, Hanson worked for the Union Carbide Company in Lindsay, which bought the invention from Wasylyk and Hanson. Union Carbide manufactured the first green garbage bags, marketed under
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