UK's biggest plastic milk bottle recycler on brink of collapse

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Chairman of Closed Loop Recycling admits company is nearing administration as it feels dual effects of oil price drop and supermarket price war

Britain's biggest recycler of plastic milk bottles is facing possible collapse after being squeezed between a slump in global oil prices and a supermarket price war. Closed Loop Recycling, based in...

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