How to make plastic from trees (and not fossil fuels)

Plastics not only harm the environment when they're thrown away, they also produce greenhouse gases during manufacturing. But it is possible to make plastic from wood, reducing the need for fossil fuels and reducing the impact on global warming. This video is funded by Dow.

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CORRECTION: When the cellulose is being extracted from the wood to make paper, both the lignin and the pitch are left behind. But it's the pitch (not the lignin) that goes into the crude tall oil. Sorry I got this wrong in the video (and I wish the YouTube annotations feature was still a thing).

References:
Strategies to reduce the global carbon footprint of plastics:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155...

Understanding the greenhouse gas implications of diverting
waste and residual materials to biofuel production:
https://theicct.org/sites/default/fil...

CO2 emissions from commercial aviation:
https://theicct.org/sites/default/fil...

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Dr Sally Le Page is a British evolutionary biologist and science YouTuber. The aim of these videos is to bring science further into popular culture by making science videos that make you laugh, make you feel and make you think.