How is plastic made?
Fossil Spaghetti Factory
How is plastic made?
You've probably held a thousand plastic things today — your toothbrush, a water bottle, maybe the case around your phone. Plastic is everywhere. But here's the wild part: every single piece of it started as ancient, dead stuff buried underground for millions of years.
Most plastic begins as oil or natural gas, pulled up from deep wells. That oil is the compressed remains of tiny sea creatures and plants that died when dinosaurs were around. We're literally making water bottles out of fossils.
