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 flow chart below outlines the life cycle of plastic bottles since they are thrown away until new use.

Overall

, 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

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

last

one

finally

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.