The diagram below shows the process for recycling plastic bottles
The process illustrates how plastic bottles are recycled.
Overall, it can be seen that this is a step-by-step process that is comprised of nine stages, from collecting plastic bottles to producing end products.
In the first stage, used bottles are thrown away and collected from recycling bins. After that, it is transported to a recycling centre by garbage trucks. This is followed by a hand-sorting process to different boxes, ones for those that meet the needs for standards that are required at the recycling centre. Subsequently, the selected bottles are compressed into blocks.
The process continues with crushing that blocks into thousand of pieces, with these tiny pieces being washed. Having been washed clearly with water, they are sent to a machine that is produced plastic pellets. Before transforming into raw material, pellets are heated at moderate temperature. At the final steps of recycling plastic bottles, raw material is converted into end products which are clothes, pens,...