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By Editorial Staff, Resource Recycling

The City of San Antonio is seeking proposals from processors of single-stream recyclables [1]. The Lone Star city collects the materials and wants to contract with a processing firm. Proposals are due in late January.

Nendo, a Tokyo-based design firm has partnered with Coca-Cola to release a new line of tableware made from recycled glass soda bottles called Bottleware [2]. The five-piece collection of dishes and serving bowls is handcrafted by glass blowers in the Aomori prefecture from Coca-Cola bottles. Via Mother Nature Network [3].

A man wielding a "spear gun" robbed a recycling center run by SARCAN in Kamsack, Saskatchewan on Saturday, reports CVT News [4]. After getting away with an undisclosed amount of money, law enforcement later caught up with him and he now faces a litany of charges.

There is an upcoming feature-length documentary called "Landfill Harmonic [5]" about, according to the filmmakers [6], a "remarkable musical orchestra in Paraguay, where young musicians play instruments made from trash."

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