Dissolving the plastic bag problem


	Dissolving the plastic bag problem

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6-22-2008 5:49 PM

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6-22-2008 6:59 PM

aklimento

We have to recycle them as the plastic. Alone with metal, paper and glass. To trowing out recyclable trash is simply barbaric.

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