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Can you make plastic from ethanol?

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Can you make plastic from ethanol?

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  1. Yes.  Take the ethanol, convert it to ethylene (very inefficient and inexpensive) and use the ethylene to make polyethylene (milk bottle plastic).

    Nobody would ever do this because it is much cheaper to get ethylene from petroleum by direct cracking.

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