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No, it's an exceedingly unnatural material. For complicated reasons, if you polymerize ethylene, you get polyethylene, but if you polymerize propylene, you get ... polyethylene again. You have to use trickery (usually in the form of a Ziegler-Natta catalyst) to get polypropylene.

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