What are stickers made of?
Stickers take paper, silicone, adhesive, PVC and ink directly. Trace them back and you pass 43 made things on the way to 20 raw materials.
How stickers are made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 20 raw materials
- Water through ink
- Kaolin through paper
- Limestone through paper
- Silica sand through silicone
- Timber through paper, wood pulp
- Quartz through silicone, metallurgical silicon
- Coal through silicone, metallurgical silicon
- Natural gas through silicone, methanol
- Crude oil through adhesive, paraffin wax
- Rock salt through PVC, chlorine
- Iron ore through ink, pigment
- Sulfur through ink, pigment
- Air through PVC, plasticizer
- Soybeans through ink, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through ink, vegetable oil
- Clay through ink, vegetable oil
- Titanium ore through ink, titanium dioxide
- Corn through ink, ethanol
- Sugarcane through ink, ethanol
- Sugar beet through ink, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 38 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 27
MethanolHydrochloric acidParaffin waxEthyleneChlorinePigmentPlasticizerCarbon blackTitanium dioxideEthanolCaustic sodaQuicklimeOxygen gasHydrogen peroxideCharcoalHydrogenPropyleneAmmoniaSulfuric acidPhenolAcetoneNitric acidNaphthaHexaneFormaldehydeBenzeneToluene