Because plastic softdrink bottles take up so much room, they are squashed together. Do you realise you could do this at home before recycling them? Fill your plastic bottle with hot water, then squish it up, and put the top on. It will take up far less room in your green bin!

Then the plastic is "granulated". This means that a machine grinds it up into tiny little flakes that can be melted down and made into a new product.

This is a box of flakes made from plastic milk containers. It will be sent away for another company to make products like the ones you see below.

Here is a pallet for carrying heavy things

Here is an outside picnic table and chairs in a park