The firm is now taking part in a new trial to see whether similar devices can separate mixed plastics of all kinds rather than just bottles.

现在，该公司正在参与一项新的实验。实验的目的在于，看看除了瓶子以外的其他塑料制品，在类似这样的设备下能否被分类成功。

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Plastics can leach many extremely harmful toxins such as BPA or bisphenol A which is getting allot of press at the moment particularly in relation to babies bottles and tinned formula.

而目前婴而瓶装或者罐装食品使用的塑料正是包含这种毒素。

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The catamaran was built with recycled and repurposed plastics, primarily 12,500 empty PET water bottles.

这艘双体船是用重新加工过的回收塑料搭建而成的，其主要材料是12500个空PET水瓶。

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The world's largest maker of glass bottles, Owens-Illinois, branched into plastics in the mid-1990s, fueling top-line growth.

FORBES: Shattered Glass

It's going to go straight into a hole in the ground, because the hard plastics that make up things like the big six pint milk bottles have some value.

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So he took a job forty miles away, at Plastipak, the plastics manufacturer, where he made seven-fifty an hour inspecting Gatorade bottles and Crisco containers as they came out of the stamping machines.

NEWYORKER: Hellhole