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Plastics by definition are synthetic polymers, so we must make them. However the ingredients used to make many of them come from petroleum, which is mined by drilling. However many newer plastics are made from ingredients produced by plants, which can be grown as crops on farms.
Before modern plastics man used many natural polymers for similar purposes to those which we use modern plastics for today. A few are:
- casein plastic, made from milk proteins
- rubber, sap of the rubber tree
- amber, transparent fossilized pine tree sap
- tar, a product of destructive distillation of wood, coal, etc.
- asphalt, present in petroleum, first found in natural oil seeps
- shellac, a resin produced by certain insects
- etc.
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