Forestry, Paper & Packaging · Recorded milestone
Plastic shopping bag
Recorded year1965
Sten Thulin's polyethylene bag replaces paper bags worldwide.
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No connections of this kind are recorded.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.