Maybelline, Kraft Heinz and P&G join to recycle more plastic caps and other small parts

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Food, cosmetics and retail giants team up to prevent small plastic from falling between the cracks of the recycling system

Maybelline, Kraft Heinz and P&G are teaming up in a new industry effort to rescue some of the billions of bottle caps, lotion pumps, pill bottles and other packaging bits that regularly go to waste...

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