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Caps collected from used plastic bottles are stored in a bucket at the Waste museum in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, 23 February 2022. Reuters/Temilade Adelaja/File Photo

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#BehindtheSelfie: Lebo Mothobi-Tilo, marketing director at Tetra Pak

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View outside the first plant of paper packaging producer 'Smurfit Kappa' in North Africa, in Rabat, Morocco, in this undated handout image released on July 2023. Smurfit Kappa/Handout via Reuters

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Corona pilots beer packaging made using surplus barley

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Alpla to consolidate manufacturing in Gauteng with new plant

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$50m Standard Bank funding to boost CCBA Ethiopia expansion

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Dr Carl Driesener, senior marketing scientist at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute (EBI) of marketing science in Australia explaining the 5 steps to becoming a smarter target marketer at Spark Media's recent event.

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