What is clear adhesive tape made of?
Clear adhesive tape takes polypropylene, adhesive and cardboard directly. Trace them back and you pass 26 made things on the way to 9 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 9 raw materials
- Water through cardboard
- Crude oil through polypropylene, propylene
- Timber through cardboard, wood pulp
- Natural gas through adhesive, polyethylene, ethylene
- Air through cardboard, wood pulp, hydrogen peroxide
- Sulfur through adhesive, acrylic, sulfuric acid
- Rock salt through adhesive, epoxy, caustic soda
- Limestone through cardboard, wood pulp, quicklime
- Coal through adhesive, epoxy, acetone, benzene, toluene
Made along the way: 23 things
Chemicals and fuels 18
PropyleneParaffin waxNaphthaEthyleneAmmoniaSulfuric acidMethanolPhenolAcetoneChlorineCaustic sodaNitric acidHydrogenQuicklimeOxygen gasHydrogen peroxideBenzeneToluene