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Consumer Bag, Industrial Bag, Any Bag is Our Bag. That's Marlex® in Action.

  • 1977

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Phillips Chemical Company advertisement printed in volume 54 of Modern Plastics. The advertisement promotes the chemical company's brandname plastic film, Marlex, a high density polyethylene plastic. The ad is illustrated with a colored print showing a crowd walking and carrying plastic shopping bags of various goods.

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Charles H. Phillips Chemical Co. “Consumer Bag, Industrial Bag, Any Bag Is Our Bag. That's Marlex® in Action.” New York, New York: Breskin & Charleton Publication Corp., 1977. 103C004. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/9l8ej4w.

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