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Feb 3 2011, Sindhu Kamaraju

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Worker try to clear a barrage of used plastic bottles which blocked the Olt river near the city of Miercurea Ciuc, in Romania’s central region Transylvania, Friday, April 24, 2009. According to local authorities millions of plastic bottles from an...