What natural resources are plastic gloves made out of? When I go to the doctor to get my legs wrapped in the bandages, she changes her plastic gloves 4 or 5 times. If she does this with everybody, think about how much plastic is getting thrown away.

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• a lot. some plastic gloves are made out of latex, which is a synthetic resourse or manmade resource. Nitrile is used in some cases to make plastic gloves and is a substitute for latex
• fossil fuel.
• Plastics are mostly made from petroleum products
• ethylene, which is made from ethane, which comes from natural gas. also water for processing, natural gas for furnaces, additives for making specific types of plastic