As far I know we can get Etilene from Alcohol which can be polymerized into Polyetilene and later you can get PVC if you get vinyl chloride from PE. Is there a way to get other plastics apart from oil byproducts?
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Oil is just carbon and hydrogen bound together (plus stuff that you don’t want anyway). You can produce it artificially from everything else that contains carbon – plants, or even carbon dioxide from the air. Hydrogen is either part of the stuff already or can be extracted from water. You need energy to do so and it’s much more expensive than pumping it out of the ground, so currently no one does it outside of a lab. But it’s possible.
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