What are desk globes made of?
Desk globes take PVC, ink, ABS plastic, acrylic, adhesive and plastic directly. Trace them back and you pass 38 made things on the way to 15 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 15 raw materials
- Water through adhesive
- Air through ABS plastic
- Natural gas through plastic
- Rock salt through PVC, chlorine
- Iron ore through ABS plastic, pigment
- Sulfur through ABS plastic, pigment
- Soybeans through ink, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through ink, vegetable oil
- Clay through ink, vegetable oil
- Crude oil through ink, carbon black
- Titanium ore through ink, titanium dioxide
- Corn through ink, ethanol
- Sugarcane through ink, ethanol
- Coal through ABS plastic, benzene, toluene
- Sugar beet through ink, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 32 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 24
EthyleneChlorinePigmentPlasticizerCarbon blackTitanium dioxideEthanolNaphthaPropyleneAmmoniaBenzeneStyreneSulfuric acidMethanolParaffin waxHexanePhenolFormaldehydeOxygen gasHydrogenTolueneAcetoneCaustic sodaNitric acid