You separate out your clear bottles, your brown bottles, your green bottles, and everyone there is very environmentally minded at home.

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Simpson still wonders why bottles, especially clear and green, are still used at all.

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And since the band is big on green alternatives, Page recycles his plastic water bottles, filling them up with tap water, shampoo or lotion, which he then totes along.

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Banco Verde Vida (Green Life Bank) pays with its moeda verde (green currency) for recyclable materials such as plastic bottles, tins and used cooking oil.

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Soon the lanky, bespectacled Vallas, 44, leads a pint-size parade of orange and green parkas across a dirt lot littered with broken bottles, and into the school.

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They say that if people think they're going green by using a bag for life and recycling their bottles they may be diverted from more significant actions to protect the environment.

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Mr Wilson will check what residents in Mansfield are putting in their green wheelie bins and in blue recycling bins - which are for plastic bottles, glass, cardboard and cans.

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It also takes a green stand: not only is the wheat organic, it is certified by both Italian and US agencies, the bottles are entirely recycled and the company commits to buy renewable power.

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