What are chopsticks made of?
Chopsticks take timber, bamboo and lacquer directly. Trace them back and you pass 12 made things on the way to 10 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 10 raw materials
- Timber goes straight in
- Bamboo goes straight in
- Corn through lacquer, ethanol
- Sugarcane through lacquer, ethanol
- Water through lacquer, ethanol
- Natural gas through lacquer, ethanol, ethylene
- Crude oil through lacquer, acrylic, propylene
- Air through lacquer, acrylic, sulfuric acid
- Sulfur through lacquer, acrylic, sulfuric acid
- Sugar beet through lacquer, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses