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

The pictures in

this

diagram illustrate the phases of recycling

plastic

bottles

.

Overall

, the process of recycling

plastic

bottles

is a man-made, cyclical process. It involves 9 stages which begin

from

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with

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throwing

plastic

bottles

in the trash and end with the production of new materials. First of all, after

plastic

bottles

are discarded in the trash, they are transported with other items by the garbage truck to the recycling centre.

Then

, they are sorted

in

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into

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two groups to separate

plastic

materials from other items.

Subsequently

, they are compressed into blocks before being crushed into small pieces and washed. Following that, these small pieces are placed into a big machine which

produce

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them as small

plastic

pellets.

Then

, these

plastic

pellets are heated to form raw materials which are used to produce variable and new products that can be used again. After these new products are

being

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discarded, the process can begin again.