should plastic bottles be crushed and destroyed or is it recycled?is glass and cloth recycled?

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Recycling process is utilised to recover or reuse a material which has potential useful components, prevent pollution and
prevent the space used by large land fills.

Plastics are recycled and for this process plastics are broken down to their monomers and reused for making new plastic.
Crushing does not interfere with the recycling process. It in fact removes the potential use of some of the plastic containers for
specific good to be used for selling spurious substances as genuine ones. Only some types of plastics can be recycled.

Glass can be recycled.

Cotton is a natural material and will degrade and is not recycled. At times it can be reutilised for other purposes.

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