What is toilet paper made of?
Toilet paper takes wood pulp, water, adhesive and cardboard directly. Trace them back and you pass 25 made things on the way to 9 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 9 raw materials
- Water goes straight in
- Timber through wood pulp
- Rock salt through wood pulp, caustic soda
- Limestone through wood pulp, quicklime
- Air through wood pulp, hydrogen peroxide
- Crude oil through adhesive, paraffin wax
- Natural gas through adhesive, polyethylene, ethylene
- Sulfur through adhesive, acrylic, sulfuric acid
- Coal through adhesive, epoxy, acetone, benzene, toluene
Made along the way: 22 things
Chemicals and fuels 18
Caustic sodaQuicklimeOxygen gasHydrogen peroxideParaffin waxHydrogenEthylenePropyleneAmmoniaSulfuric acidMethanolPhenolAcetoneChlorineNitric acidNaphthaBenzeneToluene