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