The soft drink giant plans to collect and recycle the plastic bottles used at the games.
The discarded plastic bottles and bags that pollute almost every other country on the continent are nowhere to be seen: the government has banned them.
What water there was came from the Americans, in plastic bottles, stacked inside the base.
The New York Times recently pointed out that if the vessel breaks apart in the ocean it could send thousands of plastic bottles into the ocean.
Water gushed onto the pavement and halves of clear plastic bottles fell to the ground.
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Turtles with the rings of plastic bottles around their necks, choking to death.
More than 90 universities in the US and others around the world have already restricted the sale of plastic bottles, as have some local government authorities.
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The incident raised temperatures on the terraces and the crowd threw plastic bottles at Caf and local officials, accusing them of failing to provide adequate medical cover.
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Diaz has high hopes for the future of his plastic bottles and is planning to expand his project to 36 towns across the country.
Growing Chinese demand also seems to have changed the economics of collecting plastic bottles.
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Consider the impact of plastic water bottles, which take as long to biodegrade.
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.
The brief for the Plastiki Expedition was to design a boat made out of plastic bottles that could be sailed across the Pacific Ocean that would draw attention to the problems facing the oceans as well as the kind of solutions that we need to implement.
Kenyan fans began throwing plastic bottles onto the pitch bringing the game to a halt briefly while the pitch was cleared of debris.
The L512 laptop contains 18 percent post consumer content (PCC) total, making it the industry's highest amount of PCC in a laptop.3 Each L Series laptop saves the equivalent of 10 plastic water bottles.
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The work is in partnership with brewing company SAB Miller (Coors Lite, MDG64 etc), and has the goal is developing a new nano-material that will help preserve the amber stuff (in plastic bottles) for longer in stores or homes.
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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.
Engineering problems unique to a craft made of plastic water bottles forced the catamaran to make unscheduled stops, as has unpredictable weather.
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Do a study on whether recycling plastic bottles is worth the effort.
On Saturdays the haulers, their wives and their children gathered at the recycling center to clean out the plastic pails they gave to customers for collecting the newspapers, magazines, bottles and other recycling materials.
Officers fear dozens of baby bottles covered with the same plastic stones could also be in circulation.
Now in 2010, David de Rothschild has built an entire boat out of plastic bottles and is sailing the Plastiki across the Pacific.
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Made of approximately 12, 500 reclaimed plastic bottles and engineered using the most sustainable methods possible, the Plastiki is meant to be used as a platform upon which solutions to the myriad of environmental problems can be found.
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Mrs Dalton's family started the week stacking up their six pint plastic milk bottles and tubs of margarine.
Many of our plastic bottles end up right in the ocean where we now watch the crude oil drift.
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Keep in mind that wines in plastic bottles, at least for the near future, will be made quickly, packaged quickly and are meant to be consumed quickly.
Ahri's father, Joni Lubis, collects bottles from the streets, selling them to plastic and glass factories.
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Most of the viche and the other micro-produced liquors at Petronio came in plastic bottles with conspicuously homemade-looking labels.
After bathing at sangam, people fill up plastic bottles, jars, and pots with the river water to take it home with them.
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