Explore the fascinating process of recycling plastic bottles, where old materials are given a new life through advanced techniques. From collection to cleaning, the process begins with gathering used ...

Narrator: The mix of pellets and color is melted and sent into the injection molding machine. This machine is where the actual bottles are made. At the molding machine, plastic is then inflated ...

Then, the PET plastic bottles pass through a machine that shreds them into flakes. These flakes are melted down and turned into hard pellets. At another factory, the pellets are melted again, and ...

After sorting it they shredded it and then melted it into sheets. They found that a sandwich press yielded the best results, as it kept the plastic at a low enough temperature to keep it from burning.