The diagram illustrates how plastic bottles are recycled.
Overall, it is apparent that there are 9 key steps involved in the recycling process, commending with collecting plastic bottles and ending with producing final goods.
Collecting plastic bottles in a recycling bin is the first stage of the process, before bulking into a truck. The next step is that plastic bottles are then gathered in the recycling centre to classify. Those qualified bottles are then compressed into blocks, by contrast, those insufficient ones are removed. After which, the crushing step is when blocks are squished and cleaned through the water.
In terms of the remaining phases, plastic pellets are heated to shape raw materials, after undergoing through a machine. Following this stage, raw materials are lined up and generated into various products such as boxes, bottles, T-shirts, pencils, and bags, etc. The process is repeated when bottles are used and thrown away.