How is plastic recycled?
It is a two-stage process: Sorting is mainly done automatically with a manual sort to ensure all contaminants have been removed. Once sorted and cleaned, plastic can either be shredded into flakes or melt processed to form pellets before finally being moulded into new products.
What do you mean by plastic recycling?
Plastic recycling has been described as the process of recovering scrap or waste plastics and reprocessing the material into useful products, sometimes completely different in form from their original state [16].