C6 Material choices

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C6 Material choices
PC6.9 Polymers from cradle to grave
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C6 Polymers from cradle to grave

• Imagine a bath full of oil. That is about one
  barrel.

• All over the world we extract about 70 million
  barrels of oil every day.

• Thats enough to fill and empty every bath in
  London once per hour day after day.

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C6 Polymers from cradle to grave

• Pipelines cut across the countryside
• to bring oil from the wells to refineries.

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C6 Polymers from cradle to grave

• Its hard to avoid spilling some oil on its way
  from well to refinery.

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C6 Polymers from cradle to grave

• We burn most of the oil as fuel. After refining
  only about 4 is converted to plastics. Still a
  lot of oil.

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C6 Polymers from cradle to grave

• Hot plastics are moulded under heat and pressure.

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C6 Polymers from cradle to grave

• Plastics meet our needs such as

• for cooking and warmth

• for clothing

• for decoration

• for sport and leisure

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C6 Polymers from cradle to grave

• We all produce waste.

• We can recycle some waste but there is a vast
  amount of it.

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C6 Polymers from cradle to grave

• Millions of households produce mountains of waste.

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C6 Polymers from cradle to grave

• Plastics can make good fuels they come from oil
  which is the source of most other fuels.

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C6 Polymers from cradle to grave

• Plastic in landfill is a real waste.