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Plastic bottles are made from the petroleum product polyethylene terephthalate (PET), and require huge amounts of the world’s limited supply of fossil fuels to both make and transport them. Production in the US requires millions of barrels of crude oil annually. Each bottle uses 25 per cent of its volume in oil for the manufacturing process. For a single-use disposable item, that’s a lot ... ................
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