What are seat belts made of?
Seat belts take polyester, steel, sewing thread and plastic directly. Trace them back and you pass 26 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 sewing thread
- Natural gas through plastic
- Iron ore through steel, manganese
- Limestone through steel, quicklime
- Air through steel, argon
- Dolomite through steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel, manganese
- Crude oil through plastic, propylene
- Coal through steel, manganese, coke
- Quartz through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Sulfur through steel, manganese, sulfuric acid
- Corn 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: 22 things
Metals 5
Chemicals and fuels 13
Oxygen gasQuicklimeArgonNaphthaEthylenePropylenePara-xyleneEthylene glycolPropaneSulfuric acidHydrogenCarbon dioxideCharcoal