What are trading cards made of?
Trading cards take cardboard and ink directly. Trace them back and you pass 37 made things on the way to 17 raw materials.
How trading cards are made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 17 raw materials
- Water through ink
- Timber through cardboard, wood pulp
- 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
- Limestone through cardboard, wood pulp, quicklime
- Coal through ink, titanium dioxide, coke
- Natural gas through ink, ethanol, ethylene
- Sugar beet through ink, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 35 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 25
AdhesiveCarbon blackTitanium dioxidePigmentEthanolCaustic sodaQuicklimeOxygen gasHydrogen peroxideParaffin waxHexanePhenolFormaldehydeChlorineSulfuric acidEthyleneHydrogenPropyleneAmmoniaMethanolAcetoneNitric acidBenzeneNaphthaToluene
Plastics and fibers 5
Wood and paper 1
Food 3
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.