What are toothbrushes made of?
Toothbrushes take polypropylene, pigment, synthetic rubber, nylon and steel directly. Trace them back and you pass 29 made things on the way to 14 raw materials.
How toothbrushes are made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 14 raw materials
- Iron ore through pigment
- Sulfur through pigment
- Water through synthetic rubber
- Crude oil through polypropylene, propylene
- Titanium ore through pigment, titanium dioxide
- Air through pigment, carbon black
- Natural gas through synthetic rubber, ethylene
- Limestone through steel, quicklime
- Dolomite through steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel, manganese
- Rock salt through pigment, titanium dioxide, chlorine
- Coal through pigment, titanium dioxide, coke
- Quartz through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
Made along the way: 24 things
Metals 5
Chemicals and fuels 18
PropyleneTitanium dioxideCarbon blackNaphthaBenzeneEthyleneStyreneNitric acidAmmoniaOxygen gasQuicklimeArgonChlorineSulfuric acidHydrogenToluenePropaneCharcoal
Electronics 1
What it is packed in
On the line, but left out of everything above, because it holds the finished thing rather than goes into it.