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plastic manufacturing - Coggle Diagram
plastic manufacturing
oil
composed plant and animals
intense pressure and high temperature
natural gas coal and oil (fossil fuels)
holes are dug into the ground
oils are pumped out
drilling operations (to pump out oil)
tankers (to transport oil to shore)
crude oil (need to be changed)
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7 categories of plastic
PETE
fed into a machine
(melted,, cooled and cut into small pellets)
injected with air and stretched into desired size
eg : 2 litres soda bottle
HDPE
liquid detergent
pouring melted plastic into molds
trimmed
labelled
filled
placed into a box
packed
recycle plastic
transported by recycling truck
recycling facility
sorted into
glass
aluminium
papers
tossed into bunker
to conveyor belt
to a baler machine
compressed into a single block /bale
transported to re manufacturing factory
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