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Of all the fossil fuels we use in a year, about 7%—500 million metric tons of oil equivalent, the weight of all the people on earth—is used as both feedstock and energy to make one billion tons of products. Mostly it is oil. So, what else could replace oil as a feedstock for plastics and half a million other products?
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Friedemann, A.J. (2021). Half a Million Products Are Made Out of Fossil Fuels. In: Life after Fossil Fuels. Lecture Notes in Energy, vol 81. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70335-6_12
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