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Owens-Illinois to pay $13.3m in Lipari clean-up:.

Under a proposed consent decree, the US glass and plastics packaging products firm, Owens-Illinois Inc., is to pay some $13.3 million in part payment of the US Government's costs in the clean-up of hazardous substances at the Lipari Landfill Superfund Site in Mantua Township, New Jersey (see HAZNEWS, May 1994, pp. 14-15). This latest settlement, will bring the amount recovered by the US to $119.8 million in cas

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