Some greens worry that the energy used to send a boatload of material for recycling across the world is not justified by savings at the other end.

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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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In the meantime, Lowry hopes to expand ocean plastic to other product lines and increase the amount of ocean material in the recycling mix.

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Quinn has noted before that she was not opposed to a ban on the material as part of a larger effort to increase recycling.

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Steve Burdis, from Dorset Waste Partnership, said it was "not in the interest" of any local authority to put recycling material back into landfill when costs are so high.

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But in the US, construction waste accounts for 50 per cent of all landfill material, according to the Construction Materials Recycling Association.

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Recycling the once living and organic material through their systems and outputting the basic building blocks of life (nitrogen, phosphorous, minerals, etc).

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Since 2001, Sprint has recycled more than 48 million phones, which includes at track NASCAR fan cell phone recycling, which in turn equates to more than 2, 600 metric tons of material.

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