The process chart depicts the detailed stages of recycling used glass bottles.
Overall, the cycle includes two main parts: the stage of buying and using between retailers, agencies and customers ; another stage is post-consumer waste reversed to reclaim.
At the beginning of the process, glass bottles are displayed on the shelves of the supermarket, which are bought by customers. After that, used products are collected and cleaned by high pressurised water, which is an important step for the process of recycling glass bottles.
In the following steps, these bottles are continuously sorted by colors such as brown, green and clear and then the glass factory crushes them into small pieces. These small cullets are melted in a high-temperature furnace to create a new liquid glass moulded into new bottles. At the end of the process, standard products are packaged and transported to supermarkets to start a new process.
