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 illustrates how

plastic

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is extracted and recycled from

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bottles

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. The process starts with used

plastic

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bottles

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being collected from recycling bins. A recycling truck collects the

bottles

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from bins placed around the city and transports them to the recycling facility. Where the

bottles

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are sorted out by hand and

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sent to a hydraulic compressor which compresses them into blocks. These blocks

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go to a crusher, which breaks them into smaller scraps of

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. After getting crushed, the scrapes are sent for a wash.

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these scrapes are fed to a machine which processes them down

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and turns them into small pellets,

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these pellets are heated up to form raw materials, which are

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shipped out and used to make various products

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as

bottles

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, containers, bags etc.

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, the recycling process consists of nine steps, which include collecting and sorting

bottles

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, Compressing and crushing followed by turning them into pellets for raw materials. Products from raw materials are made and the cycle continues.