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The commodities boom has increased the prices of wood and metals.
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Because resources such as textiles, wood, and metals were expensive and could not be wasted on practice runs, apprentices would spend most of their time working directly on materials that would be used for the final product.
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Just so we are clear about this particular waste let me explain directly from the European Topic Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production: CND waste includes soils, concrete, bricks, glass, wood, plasterboard, asbestos, metals and plastic.
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Metals are mined and wood is cut, but they are usually exported for processing and manufacturing, leaving the krai bereft of local industry.
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However, arsenic is also used in industry (as a wood preservative, and also in paints, dyes, metals, drugs and soaps) and in agriculture and is sometimes released into the environment from factories, industrial plants and farming enterprises.
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These companies are principally engaged in the business of producing raw materials, including paper or wood products, chemicals, construction materials, and mining and metals.
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