The red plastic caps don't stay on the cans and there's no snap to hold the auxiliary spray tube.

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Moreover, he estimates that the coating will enable manufacturers to do away with the big plastic caps currently used, saving about 25, 000 tons of petroleum-based plastics each year.

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But few of today's imaginative ideas would have made it onto drawing boards without cork's competition from screw-top bottle caps, plastic stoppers and aluminum Tetra Paks.

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Most of the goods CCBU imported (sugar, bottling equipment, plastic preforms, labels, caps, etc.) went through the Maqsudi-owned companies.

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But even Amorim and other quality-conscious producers such as Sabate are going to have to accept that plastic corks and the screw caps used in many cheaper wines in the United States and by the Swiss for even their finest bevvies are going to take an increasing share of the market.

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Here the clothes are made, ingeniously, of plastic shopping bags, trash bags, airmail envelopes, paper posters, bottle caps, and fabric printed to look like newspaper.

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Approximately 60 to 80 percent of marine debris is plastic, the majority of which is as a result of our mindless use of one-life plastics, 60 percent of which is comprised of plastic bags, Styrofoam (used for take away foods), drinks bottles and their caps.

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Though you may find a few tangled nets, buckets and bottle caps, there are no fabled islands of trash, only a thin soup of plastic.

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