Step 3: Melted down and molded

Next, the container I was in was dumped into the hot oven.  The temperatures in the oven were very hot which made me melt very quickly.  I turned from and solid to a liquid like substance.  After being baked in the oven, I was dumped into a mold.  A machine then came down and pressed down on the mold and made it so that the plastic took the shape of the mold.  Then the mold was cooled so that the plastic hardened.  After that the mold was released from me, I was then taken to a different location in the building.  Then a label was put on me and I was filled with a substance such as water or laundry detergent.  Now I am ready to be sold and used again.  That is how the recycling process of plastic works.