What is potting soil made of?
Potting soil takes coconuts, water, limestone, dolomite, fertilizer and silica sand directly. Trace them back and you pass 7 made things on the way to 13 raw materials.
How potting soil is made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 13 raw materials
- Coconuts goes straight in
- Water goes straight in
- Limestone goes straight in
- Dolomite goes straight in
- Silica sand goes straight in
- Phosphate rock through fertilizer
- Potash through fertilizer
- Natural gas through fertilizer, carbon dioxide
- Air through fertilizer, sulfuric acid
- Corn through fertilizer, carbon dioxide
- Sulfur through fertilizer, sulfuric acid
- Sugarcane through fertilizer, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through fertilizer, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 6 things
Chemicals and fuels 4
Food 2
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.