From 'shore to store': Lidl to use Prevented Ocean Plastic in water bottles

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From 'shore to store': Lidl to use Prevented Ocean Plastic in water bottles

Retailer estimates change could prevent nearly four million plastic water bottles from entering oceans every year

Supermarket Lidl has announced it has partnered with recycling initiative Prevented Ocean Plastic and will use its recycled plastic bottles for its mineral water in an initiative which it expects to save...

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