What are newspapers made of?
Newspapers take paper, aluminum, ink and water directly. Trace them back and you pass 31 made things on the way to 19 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 19 raw materials
- Water goes straight in
- Kaolin through paper
- Limestone through paper
- Crude oil through aluminum
- Coal through aluminum
- Timber through paper, wood pulp
- Bauxite through aluminum, alumina
- Soybeans through ink, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through ink, vegetable oil
- Clay through ink, vegetable oil
- Air through ink, carbon black
- Titanium ore through ink, titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through ink, pigment
- Sulfur through ink, pigment
- Corn through ink, ethanol
- Sugarcane through ink, ethanol
- Rock salt through ink, titanium dioxide, chlorine
- Natural gas through ink, ethanol, ethylene
- Sugar beet through ink, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 28 things
Metals 2
Chemicals and fuels 21
Petroleum cokeCarbon blackTitanium dioxidePigmentEthanolCaustic sodaQuicklimeOxygen gasHydrogen peroxideHexanePhenolFormaldehydeChlorineSulfuric acidEthyleneHydrogenBenzenePropyleneMethanolNaphthaToluene