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  • The earliest plastic shopping bags can be traced back to the 1950s in the U.S. and Europe. But credit Swedish engineer Sten Gustaf Thulin for creating the plastic shopping bag known and used today. His invention was patented by Celloplast in 1965. Mobil overturned Celloplast's U.S. patent in 1977. College Park, Georgia's Dixie Bag Co. capitalized on this new opportunity. When Kroger and Safeway agreed to use the bags in 1982, the familiar question "paper or plastic?" was asked and frequently answered with plastic.

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    Pn China: Who Invented Plastic Bags

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