Bin bag
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A bin bag or bin liner (British English) or garbage bag, trash bag, or also can liner (American English) is a bag used to line the insides of waste containers to prevent the insides of the receptacle from becoming coated in waste material. Most bags nowadays are made out of plastic. Biodegradable bin bags are also being produced that contain corn starch to help the material break down.
When the bag is half full, the user can remove it without having to come into contact with the contents.
Such bags, when used in the foodservice context in the United States are sometimes called can liners.
Created in 1950, this invention can be attributed to Canadians Harry Wasylyk, Larry Hansen and Frank Plomp. In a recent special on CBC television, the green garbage bag ranked 36th among the top 50 Canadian inventions [1].
