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Driving a lemon is not something a motorist wants to do, but studies by Brazilian scientists are looking to change that.
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Just when you thought that plastic waste was never going to break down in the environment, along comes Mother Nature to solve the problem.
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In Egypt, ultra-conservative party Al Nour takes a strong stance against "sinful" things like popular music and plastic surgery. And under the suspicion of having plastic surgery, one Egyptian lawmaker has been forced to resign.
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Portland, Oregon-based Agilyx is turning used industrial and municipal plastic waste into synthetic crude oil - and gaining some important allies in their effort to reduce waste and create jobs.
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Students in Taiwan won an award for the best Christmas tree created from recycled materials with their 12 metre high tree made of plastic spoons.
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Police found a fatally injured man, wrapped in plastic, in the back of a van which they chased and pulled over in Berkshire on Wednesday.
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The Great Pacific garbage patch is well documented. The Atlantic garbage patch is relatively less known. Little is known of its origins.
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A 60-foot catamaran made out of 12,500 recycled plastic bottles sailed 8,000 nautical miles from San Francisco to Sydney, Australia in four months.
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"Plastiki", a water vessel made out of roughly 12,500 recycled bottles, successfully completed a journey from San Fransisco to Sydney, Australia.
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Think crude oil, and most people make a logical leap to fuel for vehicles. What we forget, because it's not something we discuss every day, is that petroleum is used to manufacture plastic products.
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How art is changing plastic surgery
 The Florida Panthers will no longer sell plastic toy rats at their home arena.
 Canada's newest bank notes — $50 bills made from a plastic polymer — started circulating Monday.
 Canada's newest bank note, the plastic $50 bill, goes into circulation today, making it the first polymer note to be available through bank machines.
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