She avoided their eyes as she lifted the bottles from her metal tray and placed them between the coconut-shell ashtrays on the hibiscus-patterned plastic tablecloth.

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And we produce lots of garbage, including wastepaper, discarded bottles, and scrap metal.

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The thing is that glass itself, what we use to make bottles and so on, is made of metals: but metal oxides.

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