However, People's Net reveals that officials have been secretly feasting on expensive delicacies like sea cucumbers, abalone and lobster and drinking Maotai liquor from "mineral water bottles" at the canteens of state-owned enterprises in Guangdong.

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It is now possible, for example, to transform plastic mineral-water bottles into necklaces of shimmering shells.

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Shoppers now buy mineral water in rarely-recycled plastic rather than glass bottles, which even the communists recycled.

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