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Thursday 8 September 2016
Monday 5 September 2016
Writing - Explanation - Your wearing plastic?
Everywhere in this round world,plastic is recycled to produce clothing, your plastic bottles,plastic trays and all your plastic material can be recycled into soft/hard items and beautiful clothing that you can wear.
Every second week,a green recycling truck comes and takes your recycling and that's the last time you’ll see your rubbish.But did you know that isn't the end of it? well,when the truck reaches its destination,the recycling is dropped off and at that point it is shredded into millions of tiny pieces.When all that shredding is done,workers package it and it’s ready for traveling.
The contained recycling is seated into a recycling ship and then travels to China.Firstly,workers must separate the recycling into separate baths.The coloured plastics can float,so the workers could just strain it.The sticker bath is more dangerous because the stickers have a dangerous Liquid on them which could really damage the skin,if made friendly contact with it.
After the plastic has gotten really soaked,the plastic now has to be dried because people don't want to be wearing hot and wet clothing.So,the workers put the wet plastics into a roasting oven for 10 full hours.The plastic comes out of a drum.The workers then take a metal cart and have to be careful before they might hit their head on one of the huge drums.The cart has to be moved back and forth to collect the hot and dry plastic.
When they have finally collected as much plastic as the cart can hold,but the problem is that they just have millions of shredded pieces of dry and hot plastic,so what could they do? The plastics is sent through a machine with a giant screw that melts and turns all the plastic into one huge plastic material.But you can't make clothing with just huge lumps of plastic,so the lump of plastic is squashed through a strainer,which makes millions of long thin plastic strings’.
After that,the plastic string goes down a long tube,which the workers collect at the bottom.Now that the plastic is nice and smooth,it is now turned into string.The string,that was plastic,now has to be stretched serval times and be heated at the same time,this will bond the fibers together.
The next stage is to tear it all up because of the fluff that comes out of raw substance you need to make polyester.But that is done in another factory,so fluff is collected up and contained to be sent through another journey.When they reach the other factory,some of the cotton/fluff is put into a machine that hardens it,the machine brushed the cotton/fluff so that the pattern on it,so it would become stronger.Now the cotton/fluff is now ready to be turned into thread.
Soon after the workers have placed the ‘soon to be thread’,into the machine,the machine would now tease it out and spin off,after mile after mile.At the same time,pure polyester is collected on bobbins thats at the end of the machine.Now our plastic has turned into pure poleyster.In a diffrent machine,it spins and weaves a new type of polyester, A softer one.The machine creates tiny loops on it, next the softer polyster is brushed but with a really strong metal brush that makes it super soft.
So we now got our clothing material so what happens?We made it this far! So different workers get to design on the clothing material,they create the newest designs or just create old designs that people seem to love still. All of the workers have to be careful while using it because they don't want to waste anymore precious clothing material.
So our old plastic has been turned into items we wear or cuddle?They were made as one,torn up again,spinned and traveled!But what happens when clothing material is wasted?
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