Craft of Plastic Bottles

When plastic bottles are recycled they can be made into lots of things: t-shirts, sweaters, fleece jackets, insulation for jackets and sleeping bags, carpeting and more bottles. It takes about 10 bottles to make enough plastic fiber to make a cool new t-shirt.

Recycling takes many steps. ... Then, every plastic bottle must be separated from metal, glass, and other things that people put into recycle bins. The plastic bottle sare also sorted by the type of plastic they're made from. Then, the bottles are cleaned remove any food, liquid, or chemical residue.