Calbee to switch its brightly coloured packaging to black and white because war has disrupted supply of certain raw materials used in ink

  • CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social
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    8 hours ago

    Genuinely so many things come from oil, and a lot of them are dyes. Also some antibiotics, and various other useful chemicals.

    But yeah, a surprising number of dyes come from oil, and its actually a waste product of refinement. It’s a good thing overall with our current gas dependency, but its a fragile system when oil is one of the most sought-after finite-supply things on earth.