A London cardboard packaging business is on the move.
Royal Containers on Green Valley Road is relocating to St. Thomas because it needs a larger plant for its growing business that has about 275 workers, said Sean Dyke, chief executive of the St. Thomas Economic Development office.
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“It keeps all these jobs here. The labour market is very tight right now,” he said of industry’s challenge in finding workers.
“To land an industry that has been in the area for a while is a real positive.”
This Coke can is believed to have been from the 1960s or 70s
The scuba diver collected rubbish that was over a century old, including a a beer bottle from 1910 and a Coca Cola can from the 1960s or 70s.
He also picked up food packaging, milk containers, a pair of binoculars, beer bottles and cans, hats, plastic red cups and a lot of soft plastics.
The conservationist said he wanted to show how much single-use plastic ends up in the ocean. Only about 25 per cent of the rubbish actually stays on the surface, he said. So much of the plastic pollution actually sinks down below out of sight, out of mind and it could be here for weeks, months years, even decades.
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Donations to offset purchase of recycled-plastic bench January 13, 2021
Receptacles for collecting plastic bottles and plastic bags have been placed outside the Zwaanendael Museum in Lewes. SUBMITTED PHOTOS
A park bench manufactured by Eco Plastic Products of Delaware will be placed outside the Zwaanendael Museum’s front entrance.
The Zwaanendael Museum in Lewes is seeking donations of plastic bottles and bags that will be used to offset the purchase price of a recycled-plastic bench to be placed outside its front entrance.
Receptacles for collecting plastic bottles and plastic bags have been placed in the area where the bench will eventually be located. People interested in helping the museum should place their plastic items in the proper receptacle until March 2021.
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