The illustration depicts how glass containers, such as bottles ave manufactured and re used
The process starts with mixing of some substances and ends with moulding into new products.There are 9 steps in this process which includes glass production and glass recycling.
The process of glass production starts the with mixing of sand, soda ash, limestone and some chemicals. After the mixing of substances, they are melted in a glass furnace at approximately 1500°C. They are then shaped with the help of are molten glass bowing. When they have been shaped properly, they are kept in a glass containers.
For the recycling process, it starts with the collection of used glass. After that they ave differentiated according to their colour. The sorted glass are then washed to remove impurities. Thereafter, the glass are then crushed with the help of machine and melted down. In the last step the glasses are moulded into new products.