Plastic Soda Bottle

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Plastic Soda Bottle
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How it is made from Earth materials.

• Petroleum is refined
• Result Ethylene and Propylene
• Combined to make Polymer
• Fed to ExtruderMelted
• Cooled and but in to little pellets
• Shipped to soda bottle factory

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Where does it come from?

• Oil pumped from the ground
• Refined to get petroleum
• Sent off to plastic producers

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How is it refined?

• Oil Refinery
• Made Into
• Ethylene
• Propylene

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How is it manufactured?

• Pellets melted
• Injected into mold
• Plastic cools
• Bottle removed from mold
• Bottle cools
• Packaged and shipped to soda company

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Alternatives to the material

• Aluminum (pop can)
• Glass (glass bottle)
• Other metals

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How is it recycled?

• Melting Re-Molded - New bottle, other plastic
  things.
• Shredding Little threads Made into fleece.

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Sources

• http//www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperiments/qui
  ck/plastic.html
• http//www.plasticsresource.com/s_plasticsresource
  /sec.asp?TRACKIDCID92DID133
• http//www.teachingtools.com/Slinky/plastics.html
• http//www.google.com/images