A dog named "Tubby" recycles over 20,000 plastic bottles


	A dog named "Tubby" recycles over 20,000 plastic bottles

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d7191019-6be8-4e82-a8fa-75459c1fa746/6522FE6D-8C8B-4648-A2F9-22916BB43C68/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://optimistworld.com/Good-News-Dog-Labrador-Tubby-recycles-more-than-20,000-plastic-bottles/" href="http://optimistworld.com/Good-News-Dog-Labrador-Tubby-recycles-more-than-20,000-plastic-bottles/" style="font-size: 11px;">optimistworld.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://optimistworld.com/Good-News-Dog-Labrador-Tubby-recycles-more-than-20,000-plastic-bottles/"><H1>Good Dog - Labrador Tubby recycles more than 20,000 plastic bottles</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://optimistworld.com/Good-News-Dog-Labrador-Tubby-recycles-more-than-20,000-plastic-bottles/"><DIV class="article_image" id="divArticleImage">
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				            </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://optimistworld.com/Good-News-Dog-Labrador-Tubby-recycles-more-than-20,000-plastic-bottles/"><P>A labrador dog has won praise for his recycling efforts after collecting up and crushing more than 20,000 plastic bottles in South Wales over the past six years.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://optimistworld.com/Good-News-Dog-Labrador-Tubby-recycles-more-than-20,000-plastic-bottles/"><P>Twice daily Tubby goes out for a walk and usually picks up at least six plastic bottles from wherever he can find them. He then happily crushes them in his mouth and takes them back to his owner Sandra Gilmore in Pontnewydd, Torfaen.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://optimistworld.com/Good-News-Dog-Labrador-Tubby-recycles-more-than-20,000-plastic-bottles/"><DIV>"He'll dig them out from anywhere and go under bushes and even into water to fetch them. Tubby must be the keenest, greenest recycling canine around. I like to do by bit by recycling as much as I can - Tubby helps me to do an even better job." </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://optimistworld.com/Good-News-Dog-Labrador-Tubby-recycles-more-than-20,000-plastic-bottles/"><DIV>Sandra recycles them in her black box and estimates that in Tubby's lifetime he could have collected up to 26,000 bottles. "He has got a real nose for them and has done ever since he was a puppy," she said.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6522FE6D-8C8B-4648-A2F9-22916BB43C68/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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