Composting has become a common method of recycling food as fertilizer or soil amendment.

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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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Companies like Wal-Mart, BMW, Sharp, and Paramount Pictures, have been in the lead ahead of individuals, in adopting this new method of recycling.

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Next, Method teamed with like-minded Envision Plastics, which created a new recycling process, combining a minimum of 10 percent of ocean plastic with regular curbside recycled plastic to create higher quality bottles.

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