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Why the Price of Plastic Is Crashing After a Record Surge
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What Are the Types of Plastics?
In terms of the process for turning oil petroleum into plastics, how tight has that got? Sure. So I guess I should just start with where this is all coming from. You have a broad spectrum of what we call hydrocarbons coming out of the ground. And so you'll have the very heavy viscous stuff that looks like or feels like peanut butter. And then you've got the very light stuff, which is pretty much natural gas or methane. In between, you've got just after methane, we call them hydrocarbon chains.So you start with methane with one C, two C is ethane, three C is propane, and up the stream, the plastics come from
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