How are everyday things like toys and bottles manufactured in factories?
From Pellets to Toys
How are everyday things like toys and bottles manufactured in factories?
Look around the room. The plastic cup, the rubber duck, the cap on your water bottle — every one of them started as something you'd never recognize. Most began life as tiny plastic pellets, smaller than peas, poured by the truckload into machines. The big question is: how does a pile of nibs become a perfect, shiny toy? Let's follow the journey.
First, the pellets get hungry-machine treatment. They're poured into a long heated tube with a giant spinning screw inside, like a corkscrew the size of a log. As the screw turns, it pushes the pellets forward and squeezes them, and the heat melts them into a thick, gooey plastic — about the texture of warm honey or melted cheese.
