Tylenol Is Made From Crude Oil. Can We Change That?

A lot more depends on fossil fuels than you might expect. Like your medicine cabinet. No, not the plastic pill bottles… the pills /themselves/ might be derived from crude oil. It might be possible to change that and use plastic instead, but we'll need some unexpected help. Hosted by: Jaida Elcock (she/her) ---------- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us directly: https://complexly.com/support Join our SciShow email list to get the latest news and highlights: https://mailchi.mp/scishow/email ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Jp Lynch, Friso, Cye Stoner, Eric Jensen, Chris Mackey, J.V. Rosenbalm, Adam Brainard, Alan Wong, Bethany Matthews, David Johnston, Jaap Westera, Reed Spilmann, Toyas Dhake, Chris Curry, Matt Curls, Garrett Galloway, Blood Doctor Kelly, Lyndsay Brown, Jeremy Mattern, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters, Kevin Knupp, Steve Gums, Piya Shedden, Alex Hackman, Joseph Ruf, Jason A Saslow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/scishow.bsky.social #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vQHfXgFhWBt4GwIY_TVavdih1EmoQF_tUtDX_NlPizyOYVH4TF-EhPBLkSsYOEcHnWbuKp5Kow8aF8s/pub