By tackling the harder problem of recycling ocean plastic, Method hopes to raise awareness about the greater need to use post-consumer plastics.

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San Francisco-based Method already uses 100% post-consumer plastic in all its bottles, but has struggled to get other companies to follow its lead.

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Executives in the banking, retail, and technology industries acknowledge that mobile payments must tantalize consumers with targeted coupons and offers to demonstrate they are more valuable than an ordinary plastic card, which has been a fast and reliable payment method for about 50 years.

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TOHL, which stands for Tubing Operations for Humanitarian Logistics, has developed a simple method to deliver fresh water for emergency relief: install a really long plastic tube with a helicopter.

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Scientists have just unveiled an easy-to-use, inexpensive method for removing arsenic from contaminated drinking water using chopped up bits of discarded plastic bottles.

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When faced with this plastic dilemma, it would have been much more impressive to read a press release about how Method had innovated a way to preserve the aesthetic integrity of its products while still maintaining its environmental integrity.

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Mr Lucas introduced his Plastic Glasses and Bottles (Mandatory Use) motion on Tuesday afternoon, using the 10-minute rule, a method commonly used by backbenchers to introduce legislation.

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