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 a nine-stage process for recycling

plastic

bottles.

Overall

,

this

is a cyclical process with nine steps, which starts with old bottles recycling and ends up with the production of new items made from

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raw

plastic

materials

.

First,

after being thrown into recycling bins, all these waste goods are transported by lorries to a recycling

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. At the

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, these goods are sorted into

plastic

and non-

plastic

ones. After that, the waste

sorted

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as

plastic

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compressed into blocks, which are

then

crushed into small

plastic

pieces and washed.

Next,

these small pieces are moved into a machine to produce

plastic

pellets. These pellets are

then

heated to form raw

materials

. After that, these

materials

are placed on shelves and stored.

Finally

, these

materials

are used to make various types of

plastic

products,

such

as bottles, boxes, and clothes. Once these goods are used and thrown into recycling bins again, the next recycling process begins.