Shampoo. Antifreeze. Food packaging. Electronics, textiles and building materials. These things and so many more all have one common ingredient: they contain ethylene, the world’s most widely produced and widely used petrochemical, which is used to help make products lightweight, durable or waterproof.
But producing conventional ethylene releases enormous amounts of greenhouse gases that contribute to the climate crisis. Not only does ethylene use fossil fuels, predominantly natural gas, as a constituent raw material, it also uses fossil fuels as the energy source for its production.
