The Recycling ProcessHow a used product goes back to being new again!

The Recycling ProcessPurchase and use of product

Home or school

Recycling collection

Taken to a

Sorting facility.

Recycled product isMade into pulp or pellets

Product is

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Round and round it goes…

Purchase and use of productWe buy and use a product that comes in a recyclable material such as plastic, glass, paper, metal, etc.

Home or school recycling collection

After we are finished with the use of a product or its container, we dispose of it in a proper bin that is labeled by its material. These can be found at your school, home or just about anywhere.

Paper Glass bottles

Aluminum cans

Used material is taken to a sorting facility.

After the material is disposed in the appropriate recycling bin, it is taken to a sorting facility so the different materials can be separated according to their material type.

Sorting…

Dumping of used product…

Separating trash from recyclable material

Recycled material made into pulp or pellets.

The material that is broken down and processed is made into pulp, pellets or chips depending on the material. This done so that it can be easily made into whatever new product is needed

Recycled plastic chips.Paper pulp.

Recycled aluminum cans

Product is remanufactured.The processed pulp or pellets product is then remanufactured into new products at another

facility.

New recycled aluminum cans. New recycled rubber tires.

New recycled glass bottles.

Material is made into new products for purchase.

The material is ready to be used to make new products again. Like in the first step, it can be purchased and used again and then properly recycled again to more new products!

Plastic Bottle Recycle Process

Rubber Tire Recycling Process

Aluminum Cans Recycling Process