Another Toyota innovation is within reach of the assembly line: stacks of car parts in plastic bins, neatly sorted in the sequence in which they'll be needed for the mix of cars coming down the assembly line.

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He had brought out two large plastic bins filled with the artifacts of his research, and he spread the contents on the table: a metal octagonal disk, sketches on lab paper, a black plastic laser housing that served as the innards for one of his printers.

NEWYORKER: Creation Myth

Its 300 plastic recycling bins are being replaced with 418 sleek aluminum bins some for bottles, others for cans and more for paper products.

WSJ: Trash Talk in New York City's Central Park

He got plastic trash bins and buried them in the ground, after hauling up grain and soybeans from a silo that was along the main Andrews-Murphy road.

CNN: Life in the Wild

Sounding like something out of a 1950s B-movie, these giant African land snails eat their way through some surprising stuff, including stucco, plastic recycling bins, signs and more than 500 species of plants, says the Florida Department of Agriculture.

CNN: SHARE THIS

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.

BBC: NEWS | UK | England | Nottinghamshire | Man's job to look in rubbish bins

Informal to a fault, Google offices are littered with party-colored lava lamps, bins of free Coke and candy and giant plastic balls that invoke Google's multicolored logo.

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