What is cardboard made of?
Cardboard takes wood pulp, water and adhesive directly. Trace them back and you pass 24 made things on the way to 9 raw materials.
How cardboard is made What is made from it See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 9 raw materials
- Water goes straight in
- Timber through wood pulp
- Rock salt through wood pulp, caustic soda
- Limestone through wood pulp, quicklime
- Air through wood pulp, hydrogen peroxide
- Crude oil through adhesive, paraffin wax
- Natural gas through adhesive, polyethylene, ethylene
- Sulfur through adhesive, acrylic, sulfuric acid
- Coal through adhesive, epoxy, acetone, benzene, toluene
Made along the way: 22 things
Chemicals and fuels 18
Caustic sodaQuicklimeOxygen gasHydrogen peroxideParaffin waxHydrogenEthylenePropyleneAmmoniaSulfuric acidMethanolPhenolAcetoneChlorineNitric acidNaphthaBenzeneToluene