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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Oct 20th, 2009 | By The Green Scene | Mountain Xpress | Read more in: Environment

Hamming it up for plastic Did you know that every second, 100 plastic bottles are thrown away in North Carolina? And that one in five plastic bottles doesn’t get recycled? Those are just two reasons state legislators passed a bill that bans plastic bottles from landfills. The law took affect on Oct. 1, and during the following week a few North Buncombe High School students came up with their own way of spreading the word: They creatively adorned themselves with plastic bottles under the premise that when someone asked, "Why are you wearing those bottles on your head?" they’d get…

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