Recycling bottles

The given diagram indicates information about how used glass bottles are recycled.

In general, it can be seen that there are three stages in this process, commencing with the collection of used bottles, and culminating with newly recycled bottles used for storing drinks to be sold in supermarkets.

At the first stage of the process, glass bottles are used by customers and gathered at a collection point before being delivered to a cleaning plant by a truck. The second stage begins when the bottles are washed with high-pressure water, and subsequently sorted based on their color (green, brown and clear). After that, the bottles are broken down into pieces in a glass factory and melted in a furnace to form a liquid. The recycled liquid glass is then mixed with new liquid glass and poured into a mold to form new glass bottles.

During the final stage of the process, the recycled bottles are filled and packaged, and then transported to supermarkets to be sold.

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Vocabulary

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• Deliver/transport(v)
• Sort (v)