My reading activity. In reading we have been learning about recycling and we learnt how to make parachutes by using plastic bags.

My interesting writing about recycled bottles

How do Plastic bottles get made into clothing?

Did you ever wonder that the bottles that we recycle can be made into clothing? The process can be very complicated, the journey of this task is very complex.

Firstly the bottles have to get sorted because there still be water in the bottles so they have to take out the water so that it is not moistened. Then they get wrapped into cellophane. When it’s wrapped and everything is sorted, the bottles will be put into sizable boxes and into broad ships to get sailed to China.  

When the ship is in China they will be put in trucks to be sent to a factory. Furthermore, the first stage in the factory is shredding. They need to be shredded so it doesn’t affect the quality of the plastic. If there are colour tops on the bottles they will be put into a bath so the worker and strain them.

The stickers will be put into another bath called caustic soda. The soda is vile for the skin but good for taking off labels. After a lot of swimming in the baths what left is the clear plastic shreds.

Afterwards, they will separate the colour bottles and the white bottles. White bottles for white clothing and colour bottles for different colour clothing.

Next, they will put in the white bottles in the mixing machine. The mixing machine will make the bottles dry, and the mixing machine will take a long time for about 10 hours of mixing for the the shaded materials.

Furthermore they had to get stretched.  This is where you get to the stretching process, it's taking so long to stretch the material but the next part is to tear it apart again. This going to turn into polyester. Later there is carning. Carning is when you brush them all together. They have to be brushed to go into a similar direction so it strengthens the material.

 

Afterwards, they had to put the bottles into a rotating screw machine which heats up about 270 degrees celcius. This machine will melt the bottles and will go down into a sieve and then down into long strings and into the commentator below. This is now turned into thread but unfortunately the thread isn’t so strong enough to make cloth yet.

But after hours and hours of turning,they are now turned into cloth. There is a loom which is a machine that rotates thousands and thousands of thread to make the sheet. There are still more processes to go through. The first it is very delicate. This machine makes tiny loops to the surface. The second is the opposite, instead of using tough steel brushes the spinning rowers catches the loops and making it a soft and smooth for the touch.

Finally we have got the plastic bottles into polyester, now it is time to make clothes. The designers had to mark out their design.  Later it will be sent to the workers who will put them in the sewing machine to put them together.

So we have the bottles that were carefully sorted, then shredded, then turned into cloth, that cloth was then shredded into fluff and next, spun into thread. That is how the plastic bottles that was thrown out get made into clothing.

 

Recycling. At school I have been learning about recycling. In recycling you can use things again and not wasting it. Also I have learnt about the dump that has methane gas