The diagrams describe the way in which glass containers, such as bottles, are manufactured and recycled. Overall, the process of glass production consist of four stages, beginning with mixing the materials and ending up with remove the fully formed glass container from the Individual Section. And the process of glass recycling consist of five stages, beginning with collection of used glass and ending up with molding into new products. The process of glass production. Firstly, the raw materials needed in producing glass such as sand, soda ash, limestone, and other chemicals for coloring are mixed until a uniform mixture (batch) is obtained. After that, the batch are melted in the glass furnace, where it is heated at temperature approximately 1500° Celsius. Therefore, the molten glass is blown using a blowpipe to make the desired shape. Before everything is done, glass containers are removed from the IS (Individual Section) machine after they are fully formed. The process of gl...
Between 4 and 12 million metric tons of plastic enter the ocean each year—enough to cover every foot of coastline on the planet! And that amount is expected to more than double in the next 10 years. Let that sink in for a moment. In the ocean, plastic pollution impacts sea turtles, whales, seabirds, fish, coral reefs, and countless other marine species and habitats. In fact, scientists estimate that more than half of the world’s sea turtles and nearly every seabird have eaten plastic in their lifetimes. According to estimates, people around the world throw away almost four million tons of trash every day, of which 12.8% is plastic, polluting land, air and water. While plastic thrown into landfills contaminates the soil and groundwater with harmful chemicals and microorganisms, the effects of marine pollution caused by plastic are immeasurable. One of the reasons that plastic pollution is such a problem is that it doesn’t go away: “plastic are forever.” Instead, plastic debris simp...