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Indian Centre for Plastics in the Environment
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Sources of Plastics
Sources of Plastics
Majority of the most commonly used plastics(commodity plastics) are derived from these chemicals :
1. Ethylene
2. Propylene
3. Butadiene
4. Benzene
These chemicals are intern derived from Natha obtained during petroleum refining process or from Natural Gas, after processing.
A flow chat of the sources of commodity plastics and some other important plastics, rubbers and fibre materials is given below
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