This essay question is from Cambridge IELTS 16 Test 4 Writing Task 1. 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 illustration demonstrates how

plastic

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bottles

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are recycled,which can

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process help to reduce pollution and protect our planet and environment from

plastic

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products.

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, the cyclical process consists of a 9-stage and it begins with collecting

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bottles

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from people who throw them in the recycling garbage and

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facilitates products

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and different

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items made of the raw materials that came from

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bottles

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.

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with,

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bottles

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are collected from a designated recycle bin and the trucks transfer them to a recycling factory. The factory’s workers start sorting the

plastic

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bottles

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and

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they go through a compressing machine to get the air out and form them into blocks in order to crush them into small pieces. The

plastic

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pieces are

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washed before they are placed in the producing

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pellets. Following that, the

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pellets are exposed to heat, which results in the formation of a raw material. From

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, the raw materials are packaged before they are shipped to factories, they

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use the raw materials to produce different products

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as clothes,

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bags, water

bottles

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, … etc.