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Pollution probe spokesman Peter Love wants returnable bottles brought back to ease pollution caused by pull-top cans, as seen above. He refutes critic(...)
Pollution probe spokesman Peter Love wants returnable bottles brought back to ease pollution caused by pull-top cans, as seen above. He refutes critic(...)

Pollution probe spokesman Peter Love wants returnable bottles brought back to ease pollution caused by pull-top cans, as seen above. He refutes critic(...)

Date8/28/1969
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  • Pollution probe spokesman Peter Love wants returnable bottles brought back to ease pollution caused by pull-top cans; as seen above. He refutes critics by saying that the brewing industry has a return of 96 per cent of its bottles on a 50-cent-a-case deposit.
  • Pollution probe spokesman Peter Love wants returnable bottles brought back to ease pollution caused by pull-top cans, as seen above. He refutes critic(...)
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Original Toronto Star caption: Pollution probe spokesman Peter Love wants returnable bottles brought back to ease pollution caused by pull-top cans; as seen above. He refutes critics by saying that the brewing industry has a return of 96 per cent of its bottles on a 50-cent-a-case deposit.
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      Darrell, Dick
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      Calleja, Frank
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      Spremo, Boris
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      Toronto Star (Firm)
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      Chant, Donald, 1928-2007
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      Spremo, Boris
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      Greenpeace
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      Some experts fear more scenes like this one in 1982 when a blanket of smog over the city caused a pollution emergency
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      Spremo, Boris
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