What are glass bottles made of?
Glass bottles take silica sand, soda ash, limestone and polyethylene directly. Trace them back and you pass 10 made things on the way to 11 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 11 raw materials
- Silica sand goes straight in
- Limestone goes straight in
- Rock salt through soda ash
- Water through soda ash
- Trona through soda ash
- Natural gas through soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Air through soda ash, ammonia
- Corn through soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Crude oil through polyethylene, ethylene, naphtha
- Sugarcane through soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses