Chop them into little pieces, rinse the pieces in water, melt them, blow new bottles.
They wash them, grind them up and melt them to turn them back into resin, which they then use like it was virgin PET resin.
Empty bottles are recycled to reuse the material out of which they are made and to reduce the amount of waste going to landfills. The process is post-consumer waste, then sorting and lastly processing for sale.
Most of the time they are turned into more plastic bottles or clothing.
They wash them, grind them up and melt them to turn them back into resin, which they then use like it was virgin PET resin.
You do not get money for recycling plastic bottles in West Virginia. Many other states will give you money for bottle deposit though.
This 100% depends on where you are. Where I am plastic bottles have a refundible deposit, so yes. Many places do not.
plastic bottles and anything plastic (only to recycle)
They go to a plant that turns it back into a water bottle.
by recycling it and taking it to a factory
The money received for recycling plastic bottles per pound varies, depending on the type of plastic and your location. In some US states like Michigan, return can be ten cents per bottle that is recycled.
They are melted down and made into other bottles and plastic things.
It helps in the recycling process if you can. This is because the caps and the bottles are two different kinds of plastic. However, many recyclers can deal with the rings being left on.
At recycling facilities outside the cities. They are managed by companies such as the WM.
It is pretty profitable to recycle plastic because we use plastic for bags in the grocery stores and the markets. We also use it for bottles.
its cheaper to make a plastic from scratch !!
== == It would help, if you had time, but it is not necessary, any cleaning that needs to be done can be at the recycling center.