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Place of Birth: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
About Harry Wasylyk
- Harry Wasylyk (born September 25, 1925) was a Canadian inventor from Winnipeg, Manitoba, who together with Larry Hansen of Lindsay, Ontario, invented the disposable green 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, Hansen worked for the Union Carbide Company in Lindsay, which bought the invention from Wasylyk and Handsome.
- Union Carbide manufactured the first green garbage bags, marketed under the name Glad garbage bags for home use in the late 1960s.
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