What are pillows made of?
Pillows take cotton fabric, sewing thread and polyester directly. Trace them back and you pass 15 made things on the way to 9 raw materials.
How pillows are made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 9 raw materials
- Water through sewing thread
- Raw cotton through cotton fabric, cotton yarn
- Corn through cotton fabric, corn starch
- Natural gas through polyester, PET plastic, ethylene
- Crude oil through polyester, PET plastic, ethylene, naphtha
- Air through polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, oxygen gas
- Limestone through polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide
- 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: 12 things
Chemicals and fuels 7
Plastics and fibers 1
Clothes and textiles 1
Food 3
What it is packed in
On the line, but left out of everything above, because it holds the finished thing rather than goes into it.