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Recycling plastic

It's not easy to recycle plastic because there are hundreds of different types. How often do you drink from plastic bottles? Here are some of the things people do to recycle them.

Matching:

• 1. First, a special machine sorts the bottles so that all of the bottles made from the same materials are together. - a
• 2. Then another machine squashes the bottles. - d
• 3. Next, another machine cuts the bottles into very small pieces. - c
• 4. Then they wash the pieces. - e
• 5. Next, they put the plastic into bags, ready for recycling. - b
• 6. Finally, they melt the plastic and use it to make lots of new things. Sometimes they use it to make new plastic bottles! - f