Each city bus can collect up to 550 pounds of plastic bottles and cups every day. The collected bottles are sold to recycling companies and the money earned from it goes toward running the bus companies and providing money for green spaces in the city.

每辆城市公交车每天可以收集多达550磅的塑料瓶和塑料杯。收集到的塑料瓶被卖给回收公司，赚来的钱用于运营公交车公司，并为城市的绿化提供资金。

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Most of the bottles Closed Loop is currently recycling would otherwise have been shipped to China to be transformed into lower-grade plastic for cheap hard hats, artificial fleeces and the like.

若不是被闭环公司所回收，大多数的瓶子很可能会被运往中国，从而被转化成低级的塑料，用于制作廉价的安全帽、仿羊毛夹克或类似的产品。

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Why levy deposits to encourage the recycling of glass bottles but not plastic ones?

为什么征收费用鼓励回收玻璃瓶而不是塑料呢？

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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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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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As a result, plastic recycling programs have met with varying degrees of success around the world: in Sweden the recycling rate of PET bottles in 2004 was 80 percent compared to the U.S which was 15 percent.

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