The diagram below shows the process for recycling plastic bottles.

The illustration depicts how

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bottles

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are recycled. The 9-step cycle begins with people putting

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bottles

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into bins and ends with the production of new products.

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is achieved by turning

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bottles

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back into raw materials that can be turned into a range of

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commercial goods. The process starts with the placement of

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containers into specialised bins, which are

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collected by bin lorries. They are

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transported to a processing plant to be sorted by hand. When they have been correctly sorted, they can compressed into blocks of

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bottles

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.

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step 5, the

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are crushed, and the resulting fragments drop into a liquid so that they can be washed. The substance is

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placed into a machine producing

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pellets that can

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be heated to produce the raw material.

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can

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be manufactured into various goods that contain

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, and the process commences again.