What are cardboard boxes made of?
Cardboard boxes take cardboard, ink and adhesive directly. Trace them back and you pass 37 made things on the way to 17 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 17 raw materials
- Water through adhesive
- Timber through cardboard, wood pulp
- Soybeans through ink, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through ink, vegetable oil
- Clay through ink, vegetable oil
- Crude oil through ink, carbon black
- Air through ink, carbon black
- Titanium ore through ink, titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through ink, pigment
- Sulfur through ink, pigment
- Corn through ink, ethanol
- Sugarcane through ink, ethanol
- Rock salt through cardboard, wood pulp, caustic soda
- Limestone through cardboard, wood pulp, quicklime
- Coal through ink, titanium dioxide, coke
- Natural gas through ink, ethanol, ethylene
- Sugar beet through ink, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 34 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 24
Carbon blackTitanium dioxidePigmentEthanolParaffin waxCaustic sodaQuicklimeOxygen gasHydrogen peroxideHexanePhenolFormaldehydeChlorineSulfuric acidEthylenePropyleneAmmoniaMethanolAcetoneNitric acidHydrogenBenzeneNaphthaToluene