These included a trend for plastic bottles and packaging material being found.

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The scheme has made no change to recycling plastic bottles and food packaging, which can still be dropped off at the bring bank sites.

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You can cram more plastic bottles into a truck because breakproof packaging isn't needed.

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Cargill's NatureWorks division deploys bacteria to turn corn into a biodegradable plastic for water bottles, clothing and food packaging.

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Piles and piles of plastic bottles, bags, Styrofoam, packaging material and other household trash can be seen as a permanent fixture.

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Recycling the scraps of material donated by clothing factories and sculpting plastic bottles donated by residents of the community into packaging, are not only environmentally friendly, but financially benefit to the company.

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Monti killed that deal on a theory called conglomeratization: By buying a maker of machinery that produces rival plastic bottles, Tetra Laval could in a few years leverage its lead position in cartons to also control plastic alternatives (glass bottles and tin cans are the packaging products still out of Tetra Laval's reach).

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The team of 15 girls from various departments under the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) collected, during a 15-minute exercise, 53 aluminium cans, 45 plastic bottles, nearly 30 plastic fragments including bags, packaging, bottle tops, five large aluminium food trays and about 25kg of fishing nets and nylon ropes.

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Consider instead the lesser-known case of Tetra Laval, the EU's market leader in paper packaging, and its attempt to buy Sidel, a leading manufacturer of equipment that produces plastic bottles.

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