{"id":267990,"date":"2025-01-02T17:07:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T17:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/02\/theres-a-new-way-to-make-everyday-products-without-using-fossil-fuels\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:09:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:09:50","slug":"theres-a-new-way-to-make-everyday-products-without-using-fossil-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/02\/theres-a-new-way-to-make-everyday-products-without-using-fossil-fuels\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s a new way to make everyday products without using fossil fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An activist in New York City protests the use of fossil fuels in 2024<\/p>\n

Erik McGregor\/LightRocket via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

At home, I am surrounded by fossils. They are in my clothes, carpets and soft furnishings, the packaging wrapped around the food I buy and the myriad cleaning products I use every day. Even the contact lenses in my eyes are full of fossils.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not talking about ancient life forms preserved in rock (though I do have quite a lot of those too), but fossilised carbon atoms, laid down millions of years ago and brought back to the surface by the petroleum industry.\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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