Band 6+: Life Cycle of Glass and Plastic, with Recycling The diagram below gives information about the recycling of glass and plastic containers. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The diagram shows process of recycling of Glass and Plastic bottle after use.

Overall, the recycling and transportation of finished product involve eight stage procces. Although the recycling processes for glass and plastic are similar in several stages, the materials are separated and processed differently before new products are produced.

First of all, used bottelsare collected every 3-8 weeks and load bottle on trucks. There are then transported to recycling center, which spent 5- 10 days. After delivary, the bottle are separated into glass group and plastic group. In the next stage, the materials are sorted by colour in order to avoid mixing colours.

Following stage, glass passes through a crushing mashine, while plastic bottles are compressed into blocks, before being crushed. The next step, crushed pieces are then washed before sent to heating mashine. Inside the machine, the materials are melted and reshaped in order to produce new bottles. Finally, the finished products are packed and delivered to factories for future use.