What are kitchen sponges made of?
Kitchen sponges take 7 things directly, among them wood pulp, caustic soda, flax, bleach, water and polyester. Trace them back and you pass 32 made things on the way to 13 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 13 raw materials
- Flax goes straight in
- Water goes straight in
- Timber through wood pulp
- Rock salt through bleach
- Limestone through wood pulp, quicklime
- Air through wood pulp, hydrogen peroxide
- Crude oil through adhesive, paraffin wax
- Natural gas through polyester, PET plastic, ethylene
- Sulfur through bleach, chlorine, sulfuric acid
- Corn through polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide
- Coal through adhesive, epoxy, acetone, benzene, toluene
- Sugarcane through polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 27 things
Chemicals and fuels 20
QuicklimeOxygen gasHydrogen peroxideChlorineParaffin waxHydrogenSulfuric acidPara-xyleneEthyleneEthylene glycolPropyleneAmmoniaMethanolPhenolAcetoneNitric acidNaphthaCarbon dioxideBenzeneToluene