Satin Tapes

Listing ID #3684609

Collecting post-consumer PET.
(Nowadays, the majority of European cities have set into place a collection scheme to recover recyclable items, amongst which PET bottles. Often, the scheme requests citizens to dispose of recyclables into specific bags that are then collected separately from the rest of the household waste.)
2. The bags containing recyclables are sent to a sorting plant where materials are separated according to their nature.
3. Recovered PET bottles are then punctured and baled (compacted in a bundle) and are sent to the reclaimers.
4. The reclaimer first de-bales the bundles and, to make sure its final product will be as pure as possible, sorts the bottles once again.
5. The bottles are then pre-washed and are shredded into flakes.
6. The flakes, easier to wash than a flattened bottle, are then thoroughly cleaned with water and detergents resulting in a perfectly clean flake, to ensure the purest possible final product.
7. Flakes are then dried and stocked before being sold.
8. It is when the flakes are sold that the actual recycling sets into action: the flakes, the raw material, are melted then manufactured into a new product.