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To match Life! story TAIWAN-RECYCLING/
05 Nov 2009
Source: Reuters
 
A volunteer worker sews blankets made from plastic bottles at the Taiwan Buddhist Tzu-Chi Foundation recyling factory in Taipei November 4, 2009. A plastic soda bottle thrown into a recycling bin in Taiwan's capital could be reincarnated as a blanket used to warm disaster victims in any of 20 countries, says the world's largest Buddhist charity. The Tzu-Chi Foundation has been diverting plastic bottles out of the 2.6 million city of Taipei's waste stream for three years to convert into about 244,000 polyester blankets for delivery to disaster zones. To match Life! story TAIWAN-RECYCLING REUTERS/Nicky Loh (TAIWAN BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY)
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A volunteer worker sews blankets made from plastic bottles at the Taiwan Buddhist Tzu-Chi Foundation recyling factory in Taipei November 4, 2009. A plastic soda bottle thrown into a recycling bin ...


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