PET Bottles Scrap

The used and discarded bottles are collected from households, offices and institutions or picked up from open landfill by rag pickers or small waste collectors and brought to a shopkeeper. The shopkeeper sorts them and sells to wholesaler who in turn crushes the bottles into bales for resale. Before putting the discarded PET bottles into the plastic baling machine, these go through a cleaning process which includes removing the name label or sticker using hot water bath and removing the caps of the bottles (which are of some other plastic material) either manually or using a neck cutter. The bottles are then sorted according to colour (transparent or coloured (blue or green) PET, and the rest as mixed colours PET) and separated from unwanted material (non PET material).