This week we do a deep dive into the history of the plastic bag. “It’s funnier than you think,” says only one person. For a product with a fairly short life span, it’s managed to create quite a bit of damage. If you can forgive a bit of an echo, we are not in fact haunted, and we’d love to walk you through the rise and fall of the plastic bag.

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