Glass is 100% recyclable and can be recycled again and again. Do you know how it’s recycled? Let’s find it out together.
The glass recycling ______
1 ______ (begin) when you put your used glass bottles into the recycle bin. It’s very important that you do your part. After all, if you throw it in the rubbish bin instead ______
2 ______ the recycling bin, it will end up in a landfill (垃圾填埋场). Though it might not be ______
3 ______ (harm) to the soil, it’s a waste of resource.
When the glass
4 (collect) by a factory, it will be cleaned first. That means washing away the waste inside and taking away metals and paper or plastic labels.
Now the glass is clean. It’s time
5 (separate) different kinds of glass for recycling. For example, coloured glass and clear glass are two different kinds,
6 non-food containers (容器) cannot mix with food containers.
In the next step, the glass will be sent to a machine where it is
7 (break) down into small pieces. The pieces are called cullet. After the cullet travels down a conveyor belt (传送带), some special tools are used to take away remaining (遗留的) metals and small paper labels. The cullet becomes much
8 (clean).
Finished cullet is then sold to other factories as a material. The factories melt down the cullet and then form it into new things. Your glass bottle now may become
9 part of a desk, some beach sand or paint for street lines.
Altogether, the whole
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(recycle) and reproduction process can take about 30 days.
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