What is PET plastic made of?
PET plastic takes para-xylene, ethylene and ethylene glycol directly. Trace them back and you pass 9 made things on the way to 8 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 8 raw materials
- Natural gas through ethylene
- Water through ethylene glycol
- Crude oil through ethylene, naphtha
- Air through ethylene glycol, oxygen gas
- Corn through ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide
- Limestone through ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide
- Sugarcane through ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses