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In a perverse twist, detainees are served food in plastic bags with holes, so the bags cannot be used to conserve water.
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We deliver freshly baked bread every morning to our cafes, and at the end of the day the bread that goes unsold is taken out the back door in black plastic bags and is delivered to food pantries and soup kitchens.
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In April 2002 a dead minke whale was washed up on the coast of Normandy, France, with nearly a kilogram of plastic bags in her stomach that she had mistaken for food.
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Pack food and other gear in reusable fabric shopping sacks instead of paper or plastic bags, and use recycled paper napkins.
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The team of 15 girls from various departments under the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) collected, during a 15-minute exercise, 53 aluminium cans, 45 plastic bottles, nearly 30 plastic fragments including bags, packaging, bottle tops, five large aluminium food trays and about 25kg of fishing nets and nylon ropes.
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Pollution also poses a threat: floating plastic bags look a lot like the jellyfish they rely on as their main food source, and have been found in the digestive systems of about half of the leatherbacks studied in recent times.
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Spinach, lettuce and other greens sold in plastic bags or clamshell packages have become one of the hottest growth areas in the food business.
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The only plastic objects that can not now be recycled are heavily contaminated items, such as paint pots and plastic products, such as carrier bags, coal sacks, and clear material used to seal food containers.
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Ms Baker described using plastic bags to go to the toilet and that she had seen a woman pass out while waiting for food.
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