cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/53382745
China’s desperation for raw materials to make plastics has driven US ethane exports to record levels, even as the two countries are locked in disputes over everything from Iran to semiconductors.
The Iran war has disrupted oil supplies around the world, leading to a shortage of the petrochemical feedstock naphtha, made from crude and produced in the Middle East.
The shortage has pushed refineries in China, the largest plastics manufacturer in the world, to import more ethane, a cheaper alternative and an abundant byproduct of US natural gas production, to help make everything from water bottles to car parts.
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We need to eliminate the use of plastics in as many applications as possible.
At the very least, make them without petrochemicals
Yup, for the things that we can’t replace easily. Things like single-use plastics? Screw that.
Sure, we’ll recycle your plastics! And I can take your motherboards and smelt them in my backyard. I will not be using shoes the whole time, its wasteful. Thanks government!
This is some propaganda, they’re literally selling off American oil and LNG products from the reserves and supplies they’re also using to defray the cost of their war on Iran. Lol. LMAO, even.
