What are highlighters made of?
Highlighters take ink, plastic and polyester directly. Trace them back and you pass 29 made things on the way to 16 raw materials.
How highlighters are made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 16 raw materials
- Water through ink
- Natural gas through plastic
- 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 ink, titanium dioxide, chlorine
- Coal through ink, titanium dioxide, coke
- Sugar beet through ink, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
- Limestone through polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide
Made along the way: 26 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 20
Carbon blackTitanium dioxidePigmentEthanolNaphthaEthylenePropyleneHexanePhenolFormaldehydeChlorineOxygen gasSulfuric acidHydrogenPara-xyleneEthylene glycolBenzeneMethanolCarbon dioxideToluene