The first diagram illustrates the way in which glass containers are made in the industry, while the second diagram depicts the process of glass recycling.
Overall, the glass production consists from three essential steps, commencing with mixing of chemicals and culminating with shape formation of the product. The recycling process contains five stages, starting with collection of used glass and ending with moulding.
To begin with, sand, soda ash, limestone with other chemicals are mixed together. After that, the substance is melt at extremely high temperature, approximately 1500 degrees. Subsequently, the glass is shaped by blowing to create glass containers.
As far as it comes to glass recycling, used glass is collected with the aim to sort the glass accroding to color in the next stage. Thereafter, the glass is washed to remove impurities on the surface. The washed glass than is crushed and melted, at the final step substance is mould to form new products.
