The diagram below shows the process for recycling plastic bottles. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The diagram below shows the process for recycling plastic bottles. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
✨ Do you want to improve your IELTS writing?
The flow chart below outlines the life cycle of plastic bottles since they are thrown away until new use.
Overall
Linking Words
, it can be seen that nine stages are necessary to complete all recycling processes. All stages are either manual or automated. First of all, it all starts with throwing the bottle into the waste container.
Then
Linking Words
a big-dimension truck comes to collect all the garbage and transport them to a recycling centre where an operator, manually, has the job of choosing the ones suitable for recycling, discriminating the ones that do not fit for a new life. After the triage is made, all gathered material is compressed into blocks and crushed afterwards. The resultant material is dipped in the water and washed and later introduced in a machine where plastic pellets are produced. These pellets are heated forming some raw material.
This
Linking Words
last
Linking Words
one
finally
Linking Words
gives place to new products. In summary, the process of plastic bottle recycling involves a series of sequential steps, beginning with the disposal of it and culminating in the production of several products.
Submitted by acarina.simoes on

Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Writing9 with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.

Basic structure: Change the third paragraph.
Vocabulary: Only 4 basic words for charts were used.
Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the third paragraph.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • Recycling process
  • Disposal
  • Collection
  • Sorting
  • Cleaning
  • Contaminants
  • Recycling center
  • Plastic flakes
  • Melting
  • Re-shaping
  • Raw materials
  • Transformation
  • Repurposing
  • End products
  • Variety
  • Sustainability
What to do next:
Look at other essays: