The red plastic caps don't stay on the cans and there's no snap to hold the auxiliary spray tube.

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Moreover, he estimates that the coating will enable manufacturers to do away with the big plastic caps currently used, saving about 25, 000 tons of petroleum-based plastics each year.

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But few of today's imaginative ideas would have made it onto drawing boards without cork's competition from screw-top bottle caps, plastic stoppers and aluminum Tetra Paks.

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Most of the goods CCBU imported (sugar, bottling equipment, plastic preforms, labels, caps, etc.) went through the Maqsudi-owned companies.

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Here the clothes are made, ingeniously, of plastic shopping bags, trash bags, airmail envelopes, paper posters, bottle caps, and fabric printed to look like newspaper.

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Approximately 60 to 80 percent of marine debris is plastic, the majority of which is as a result of our mindless use of one-life plastics, 60 percent of which is comprised of plastic bags, Styrofoam (used for take away foods), drinks bottles and their caps.

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Though you may find a few tangled nets, buckets and bottle caps, there are no fabled islands of trash, only a thin soup of plastic.

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