What are leather shoes made of?
Leather shoes take leather, sewing thread, cardboard, vulcanized rubber and adhesive directly. Trace them back and you pass 44 made things on the way to 17 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 17 raw materials
- Cattle hide through leather
- Rock salt through leather
- Water through adhesive
- Natural rubber latex through vulcanized rubber
- Sulfur through vulcanized rubber
- Limestone through leather, chromium
- Chromite through leather, chromium
- Air through leather, chromium
- Timber through cardboard, wood pulp
- Crude oil through vulcanized rubber, carbon black
- Coal through leather, chromium, aluminum
- Trona through leather, chromium, soda ash
- Natural gas through vulcanized rubber, synthetic rubber, ethylene
- Corn through leather, chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Bauxite through leather, chromium, aluminum, alumina
- Sugarcane through leather, chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through leather, chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 39 things
Metals 4
Chemicals and fuels 25
QuicklimeCarbon blackParaffin waxSoda ashCaustic sodaOxygen gasHydrogen peroxideNaphthaBenzeneEthyleneStyrenePropyleneAmmoniaSulfuric acidMethanolPhenolAcetoneChlorineNitric acidHydrogenCarbon dioxidePetroleum cokePara-xyleneEthylene glycolToluene