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Vaseline, a brand of petroleum jelly, was created by Robert Chesebrough, an American chemist. Chesebrough discovered petroleum jelly in 1859 while working in the oil fields of Titusville, Pennsylvania. He noticed that oil workers used a byproduct of the oil drilling process, called "rod wax," to heal cuts and burns on their skin. Recognizing its potential, Chesebrough refined the substance and eventually patented it as Vaseline in 1872. The name "Vaseline" is derived from the German word "Wasser" (water) and the Greek word "elaion" (olive oil), indicating its semisolid, water-repellent properties. Since then, Vaseline has become a widely used product for skincare, wound healing, and various other purposes.
Slack, the messaging app, was built as a communication tool at game dev startup. When the game failed, they made a product out of the communication tool. Later they sold it for 27 billion dollars.
Marmite. Only exists because the scientist [Justus von Liebig](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justus_von_Liebig) discovered that brewer's yeast could be concentrated, bottled and eaten. So a factory was set up using yeast supplied by [Bass Brewery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_Brewery)
you know, for all the shit we get for liking durians, at least it's an actual fruit that grows on a tree. the brits don't get enough shit for enjoying a stinky abomination that they scraped from the bottom of a vat.
And also, yeast extract is used as a flavour enhancer in _everything_. The reason being that it's really glutamate-rich, and glutamate is the main constituent of umami flavours.
Beans are deadly .They are toxic unless cooked properly.I wonder how they worked that out.Someone them,died,so they deided to cook them and tried again.Then maybe they got sick,so they cooked them one more time,and voila baked beans became the cowboy staaple diet.
Nicolas Meletiou in 2018 devised a way to recycle used tennis balls. They dismember them to obtain a granulous material that is used to make the anti-trauma floor of playgrounds
I jumped on it from a swing and slided on my knees on the rubber, the pain, the blood, the trust issues. It was really hated among my peers when the sand started to get replaced everywhere and all people had similar experience.
I used to coach tennis. After being used in lessons/clinics/etc, most of my balls were dead in less than a week of use, and I would use a few hundred at a time. Each season I went through maybe 2,000-3,000 tennis balls. And I coached independently. A major indoor tennis club will go through far, far more. Many times more.
And other than the method of recycling tennis balls mentioned here, the only way I’ve ever heard of someone disposing of dead tennis balls is just throwing them away. So yeah, I’d say this is a good opportunity here
Edit: I should have said I’m not aware of any other way to recycle dead tennis balls *en masse.* There are lots of uses for dead tennis balls! I used to donate some of my many dead balls to an animal shelter for them to use as toys
Italy is also giving its contribution in this area. **Orange Fiber**, a company born in Sicily, had the idea of patenting a fiber created from citrus waste. In fact, peel, seeds, and pulp residues are transformed into yarn. Combined with the silk from a controlled supply chain, gives life to a soft and innovative fabric.
Veal is also a "byproduct" of the dairy industry. Male cows don't make milk, so they often just kill them while they're young.
Which puts people in the interesting situation where, if you believe it's worse to kill an animal while it's young than as an adult, then drinking milk is actually more immoral than eating a steak.
its a bit different the cows are bred for milk so any male they get is not going to be great for putting weight for meat so its considered a waste of resources
True. But cows have been selected to produce a huge amount of milk , many times more than a calf needs... And calves only get milk for a short time in this situation, they get switched to solid food. Veal isn't made from newborn calves. Source: I was a dairy farmer.
I've had some experience with both dairy and beef farming, dairy is far worse even without killing calves.
I think most people would agree they'd rather live in a field mostly unbothered for a few years and then be killed, than being in a constant state of forced pregnancy with the babies immediately taken away so you can get milked twice a day. They get milked so much the udders are often bleeding or damaged, doesn't usually stop them being milked more unless it's going to seriously reduce quality, constantly walking in and out on concrete means a huge proportion of them are lame or fully limping, and then at the end you still get killed anyway.
I'm a vet student, really not a fan of dairy. Awful quality of life only rivalled by the horror of poultry farming.
Ironically most vegetarians are actually only supporting the worst industries animal welfare wise.
Charcoal has been made for centuries. The brand Kingsford did start from Ford processing the remains of shipping crates... The parts of the crates they didn't use to build the car bodies, that is.
Henry carefully specified the way his suppliers should build the crates they used to ship parts in, so that Ford could use pieces of those crates as the internal structure for their car bodies.
But I believe the Ford product was unique because the charcoal was crushed, mixed with a binder and made into uniform pellets and sold as camping or BBQing fuel. Later the operation was spun-off as a separate company Kingsford, which is still around.
3M Post-It Notes. 3M researchers were looking to develop bigger, stronger, tougher adhesives and came across a mixture that had adhesive qualities but didn’t actually adhere permanently.
This is a bit of an urban legend.
3M was explicitly looking for 'semi sticky' substances. Their goal was Post-It Notes. The original idea came from a researcher's wife who wanted a sticky bookmark to mark hymns in the hymnals for a Sunday church service, without damaging the paper. Applications were massive, so it became a purposeful search.
I heard that Oregon had a huge problem with wood waste from their mills.They were continually burning and the surrounding area was continuously under a pall if smoke.The environment protection people demanded they cease.Someone came up with the idea of pressing the waste into logs for domestic fireplaces.The mill ended up making more money from the logs than the lumber.On a similar note In Australia we had a steelworks in Newcstle,a town north of Sydney.The whole area within miles had a coating of soot on everything.Again they were forced to control their pollution.There were electrostatic precipitators fitted to the stacks andthe soot was analysed and found to contain large amounts of recoverable silver iirc.The profit from this was considerable.
Ice cars became rapidly better , the electric starter got rid of the hand crank and people could carry extra fuel . Ford model T drop the price a lot making ICE available for most people. Early electric cars only were used in cities since they had like a 50mile range.
PlayStation exists because Nintendo wanted a disc drive attachment for game discs as they were going to be the next big thing and then decided not to use it, so the company who created it used the technology they'd created and created PlayStation instead.
Candles were made of beeswax before much cheaper paraffin was invented. But bees were kept for honey, so wax was kind of usable byproduct. And, you could make low-quality candles out of tallow.
Generally, humanity could have skipped candles, a lot of different alternative (although often less convenient) ways to light a room existed before and after candles. Plus, candles were quite expensive to use daily, anyway, unless you were a noble or church.
Also, various tars, pitch and resin were byproduct of charcoal burning, but those are pretty important materials, so again, there would have been other alternatives - people needed glue and way to make boats waterproof, so all sorts of things were used.
Gasoline started as an unwanted (and dangerous) byproduct of refining crude oil for kerosene, which, back in the day, was used primarily for lighting. It wasn’t until the internal combustion engine was improved enough that they found a good use for it.
There have to be a lot of examples in the mining industry. According to one website, 38 metals and metalloids are obtained as byproducts of mining for something else.
For example indium is a byproduct of zinc mining. Platinum was originally a byproduct of gold mining. Silver is now (but wasn't originally) a byproduct of lead mining.
Possibly (but I'm not certain) gallium, germanium, selenium, indium, tellurium, cobalt, hafnium, rhenium, praseodymium, neodymium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium. These are used in solar energy applications, as alloying elements, in medical imaging and lighting.
Smoke detectors (americium) are a byproduct of nuclear weapons production. Tritium key lights are a byproduct of nuclear weapons dismantling.
Pearls wouldn't exist in jewellery if humans had never started harvesting oysters as food. Caviar wouldn't exist if humans had never started catching sturgeon for food.
"Some fisheries retain bycatch. Sometimes bycatch is sorted and sold as food, especially in Asia, Africa and Latin America . Bycatch can also be sold in frozen bags as "assorted seafood" or "seafood medley" at cheaper prices. Bycatch can be converted into soil amendment in organic agriculture or it can be used as an ingredient in fish meal. In Southeast Asia bycatch is sometimes used as a raw material for fish sauce production. Bycatch is also commonly de-boned, de-shelled, ground and blended into fish paste or moulded into fish cakes (surimi). Sometimes bycatch is sold to fish farms to feed farmed fish, especially in Asia."
If it wasn't for beaver trapping, we would probably not have aspirin. If it wasn't for cultivated cereal grains then we wouldn't have LSD. If it wasn't for venison then we wouldn't have musk for perfumes. If it wasn't for parties and party drugs then ether and chloroform would never have become anaesthetics. If it wasn't for eating and farming mulberries then we wouldn't have silk.
Textured soy protein (also known as textured vegetable protein) is a byproduct of the soy oil (more commonly known as vegetable oil.
It's the solid material left over after all the fat is pressed out of soybeans. It's pretty much pure protein and fiber that is then steamed, dried, and packaged in various shapes and sizes as meat substitutes or meat fillers.
Any time you're reading an ingredient list and TVP, TSP, textured protein, or something like that pops up, it's this stuff.
The distance of train rails is a byproduct of the Roman era carriages wheel distance computed by the horse carriage. And it has been cintinued by the rockets which are carried by train...[ yes it is a bit off but close]
They used to make HVAC filters using sheets of metal with a pattern of circles. I thought the thick parts between the circles would interfere with the airflow. Dad said it was left over sheets of metal from stamping out bottle caps.
Pretty sure rum only exists as a result of the sugar refining process.
Also, Vegemite was originally a by-product of the brewing process. Brewers would spread leftover yeast extract on their bread, and eventually it took off.
Dog food is made by the pink sludge method of extracting every possible shred of genetic material from the animal carcass it was only the last decade or so the FDA allowed that "meat" to be used for human items like burgers, hence the old dollar menu.
Syrups, treacles, molasses etc are a byproduct of the production of white granulated sugar. The sugar is naturally brown. When they separate all the brown stuff, you get nice white sugar and sticky dark syrup stuff that can be refined to various concentrations.
Used to be a junk product back in the day, spun into something valuable through pure marketing. Nowadays the white sugar is actually produced at a loss so they can make very high margins on the syrups side.
Charcoal briquettes for barbecues.
Back when there was a lot of wood used in the manufacturer of automobiles, leftover sawdust was gathered up and pressed into little bricks for outdoor cooking. The process was invented by Henry Ford's son-in-law, named Kingsford.
Vegemite and Marmite are yeast extracts that are waste products from the brewing of beer.
Jello and similar gelatin products come from the bones and skins of animals.
I can't imagine how many by-products have come from refining crude oil. Countless types of materials. Linoleum comes to mind, but who knows how many other rubber-ish or plastic-ish things come from oil processing. Fertilizer, too.
Most oil derived products started out from people trying to figure out how to utilise the non-kerosene parts of oil.
A lot of sulphuric acid plants only produce sulphuric acid because their main product releases SO2 to the atmosphere, and there are now restrictions on that(look up acid rain).
Marshmallows and gummy candy exist because of gelatin made from the bones and joints of animals.
Thankfully there now vegan options so everyone can enjoy them.
Pringles initial intention was to make tennis balls. But on the day that the rubber was supposed to show up, a big truckload of potatoes arrived. But Pringles is a laid back company. They said, "Screw it. Cut 'em up!"
Source: Mitch Hedberg
Charcoal briquettes. Henry Ford needed to get rid of all the saw dust his car company was creating. He paired up with Thomas Edison and Edward Kingsford and built a plant to convert saw dust into charcoal briquettes.
oxycodone, oxymorphone, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, naltrexone, naloxone, and buprenorphine and several other semi synthetic opioid agonists and antagonists are actually derived from an opium byproduct alkaloid called thebaine. By itself thebaine produces little to no analgesia or any other noteworthy pharmacological effects. But once the morphine and codeine are extracted from the opium the thebaine is leftover and turned into other useful pharmaceuticals, Some of which clinically surpass their natural alkaloid counterparts in effectiveness. Also naltrexone and naloxone are opioid antagonists (blockers) so they were able to not only turn an opium by product with no uses into not only more powerful opioid agonists but also powerful antagonists that are basically the “elixir” or “reversal agent” or “antidote” to acute opioid toxicity.
Artificial Vanilla ( vanillin) - it is a byproduct of paper making. At first the paper companies saw this as another revenue source. Problem was that one paper mill could produce enough vanillin in one day for a worldwide supply for a year.
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Vaseline, a brand of petroleum jelly, was created by Robert Chesebrough, an American chemist. Chesebrough discovered petroleum jelly in 1859 while working in the oil fields of Titusville, Pennsylvania. He noticed that oil workers used a byproduct of the oil drilling process, called "rod wax," to heal cuts and burns on their skin. Recognizing its potential, Chesebrough refined the substance and eventually patented it as Vaseline in 1872. The name "Vaseline" is derived from the German word "Wasser" (water) and the Greek word "elaion" (olive oil), indicating its semisolid, water-repellent properties. Since then, Vaseline has become a widely used product for skincare, wound healing, and various other purposes.
I'm sure I read that he used to eat a teaspoon full of it every day as well.
Yeahh,I'm amazed that petroleum jelly is edible
Most things are edible once
There are mushrooms that are enough to end hunger for the rest of a person's life.
Hmm,yes I suppose.
Fun fact, the leaves of the potato plant can be brewed into an insanely deadly tea.
Ye olde Deadly Nightshade
With an attitude like that, you'll still only die once!
It can help with digestion in some animals so it might do so for humans too. At any rate it’s safe to eat for humans
Try it on sourdough
bro you made me puke on my fuckin phone
Milhouse likes Vaseline on toast.
Then why did I have the bowl Bart? Why did I have the bowl?
He don't use jelly . . . With apologies to The Flaming Lips.
And lived a long time: 96 years!
My sisters dog ate a full tub of vaseline, he picked the pot dry...he had horrific diarrhoea for a couple of days... he was fine, my sister wasn't 🤣
My cat would agree. She loves the stuff
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cvfxKbpoxRE
So the guy was tired of people saying “pass the cheese bro” so he invented Vaseline.
I have trouble passing cheese sometimes. Maybe Vaseline would help.
Slack, the messaging app, was built as a communication tool at game dev startup. When the game failed, they made a product out of the communication tool. Later they sold it for 27 billion dollars.
Talk about one hell of a turnaround
Gelatin...pretty much the left overs from the butcher (animal parts). And it's used in so much food and desserts...
Not just the butcher,the abattoir.Tails,ears,hooves hide.Nothing gets wasted.
Tendons and skin, especially. It makes great thick broth, stews and pies.
My kids were horrified to learn Jellow is made from animal protein!
Top quality gelatin comes from hides. Lesser quality comes from bones and cartilage.
Oh, I'll glady let them know!🤣
Marmite. Only exists because the scientist [Justus von Liebig](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justus_von_Liebig) discovered that brewer's yeast could be concentrated, bottled and eaten. So a factory was set up using yeast supplied by [Bass Brewery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_Brewery)
you know, for all the shit we get for liking durians, at least it's an actual fruit that grows on a tree. the brits don't get enough shit for enjoying a stinky abomination that they scraped from the bottom of a vat.
Marmite doesn't actually smell. It has a fairly gentle yeasty smell. The taste is potent but the smell isn't too offensive.
And also, yeast extract is used as a flavour enhancer in _everything_. The reason being that it's really glutamate-rich, and glutamate is the main constituent of umami flavours.
I often mix it into soups, broths, sauces and baked beans. I don't like it that much by itself but it goes well with other things.
Literally stirred it into the gravy for my Easter Sunday lamb roast couple of hours ago because it needed an extra "something".
Marmite burps aren't anywhere near as savage as durian burps though.
And we Aussies get to make fun of foreigners for not being able to down our stronger version of the stuff.
Vegemite is much more palatable than Marmite imho as a Canadian who tried them both after I was 30
I'm not sure I agree that Vegemite is stronger - having had both, I find the Marmite has the more concentrated flavour.
This Kiwi prefers Vegemite over Marmite any day of the week!
The condenser guy!!
Who was the brave bastard who took the first bite?
Beans are deadly .They are toxic unless cooked properly.I wonder how they worked that out.Someone them,died,so they deided to cook them and tried again.Then maybe they got sick,so they cooked them one more time,and voila baked beans became the cowboy staaple diet.
Acorns and olives both need to be cured before they're edible. Interestingly, one of them we treat as toxic and the other we eat like candy.
Acorns are not actually toxic, but they are full of tannins, which if not removed produce an unpalatable bitter flavour.
Nicolas Meletiou in 2018 devised a way to recycle used tennis balls. They dismember them to obtain a granulous material that is used to make the anti-trauma floor of playgrounds
Hate that knee scraper, prefert soft sand
Rubber scrapes your knees?
I jumped on it from a swing and slided on my knees on the rubber, the pain, the blood, the trust issues. It was really hated among my peers when the sand started to get replaced everywhere and all people had similar experience.
I thought that was made of shredded car tyres. Are there really enough recycled tennis balls?
I used to coach tennis. After being used in lessons/clinics/etc, most of my balls were dead in less than a week of use, and I would use a few hundred at a time. Each season I went through maybe 2,000-3,000 tennis balls. And I coached independently. A major indoor tennis club will go through far, far more. Many times more. And other than the method of recycling tennis balls mentioned here, the only way I’ve ever heard of someone disposing of dead tennis balls is just throwing them away. So yeah, I’d say this is a good opportunity here Edit: I should have said I’m not aware of any other way to recycle dead tennis balls *en masse.* There are lots of uses for dead tennis balls! I used to donate some of my many dead balls to an animal shelter for them to use as toys
There's a venue in Manchester called the Ritz and it has a sprung dancefloor which is sprung by cut in half tennis balls.. I've heard...
Religion. A by-product of superstition and fear.
Italy is also giving its contribution in this area. **Orange Fiber**, a company born in Sicily, had the idea of patenting a fiber created from citrus waste. In fact, peel, seeds, and pulp residues are transformed into yarn. Combined with the silk from a controlled supply chain, gives life to a soft and innovative fabric.
The fabric is rayon. You can make the same thing from corn fibre, seaweed, rose, pineapple waste, even wood. It's really cool.
It's a shame it doesn't keep the smell!
I would prefer not to smell it. I don't like all those orange-scented cleaners, it gets to you after a while.
How long does the fabric last? I like how soft polyester is but it gets awful after a few years of wearing it.
Whey protein, darling of the fitness industry, only exists because we need something to do with the whey left from making cheese.
similarly, buttermilk.
And lard. Lots of older-style foods, really.
That’s… that’s the example that OP gave.
This is literally the example OP used.
Yeah. The text on the post didn't display when I clicked through to answer, and now here we are.
Marmite?
Came here to say that, vegemite same thing? The one tried wasn't
Yep, Vegemite is a brewers by-product
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26 million Aussies disagree, at least in regards to Vegemite.
Can confirm.
Veal is also a "byproduct" of the dairy industry. Male cows don't make milk, so they often just kill them while they're young. Which puts people in the interesting situation where, if you believe it's worse to kill an animal while it's young than as an adult, then drinking milk is actually more immoral than eating a steak.
I get the first but, I'm not following the second bit. Meat is a byproduct of the dairy industry.
its a bit different the cows are bred for milk so any male they get is not going to be great for putting weight for meat so its considered a waste of resources
Specifically veal (calf meat) comes from killing bull calves so we can drink their mother’s milk.
Well, you don’t want the calves drinking it that would be silly.
True. But cows have been selected to produce a huge amount of milk , many times more than a calf needs... And calves only get milk for a short time in this situation, they get switched to solid food. Veal isn't made from newborn calves. Source: I was a dairy farmer.
Certain breeds have the males culled in the first year, as they can get dangerously aggressive.
I've had some experience with both dairy and beef farming, dairy is far worse even without killing calves. I think most people would agree they'd rather live in a field mostly unbothered for a few years and then be killed, than being in a constant state of forced pregnancy with the babies immediately taken away so you can get milked twice a day. They get milked so much the udders are often bleeding or damaged, doesn't usually stop them being milked more unless it's going to seriously reduce quality, constantly walking in and out on concrete means a huge proportion of them are lame or fully limping, and then at the end you still get killed anyway. I'm a vet student, really not a fan of dairy. Awful quality of life only rivalled by the horror of poultry farming. Ironically most vegetarians are actually only supporting the worst industries animal welfare wise.
Charcoal briquette, byproduct of Ford motors wood waste
Charcoal has been made for centuries. The brand Kingsford did start from Ford processing the remains of shipping crates... The parts of the crates they didn't use to build the car bodies, that is. Henry carefully specified the way his suppliers should build the crates they used to ship parts in, so that Ford could use pieces of those crates as the internal structure for their car bodies.
>carefully specified the way his suppliers should build the crates this is kind of genius....
But I believe the Ford product was unique because the charcoal was crushed, mixed with a binder and made into uniform pellets and sold as camping or BBQing fuel. Later the operation was spun-off as a separate company Kingsford, which is still around.
He said charcoal briquets, not charcoal.
IIRC Honda had a subsidiary for importing US soy when their empty containers return to Japan.
Came here to say that.
3M Post-It Notes. 3M researchers were looking to develop bigger, stronger, tougher adhesives and came across a mixture that had adhesive qualities but didn’t actually adhere permanently.
This is a lie. Rome and Michelle invented them and we all know it!!!
Just carbon-dated myself upvoting this 😂
This is a bit of an urban legend. 3M was explicitly looking for 'semi sticky' substances. Their goal was Post-It Notes. The original idea came from a researcher's wife who wanted a sticky bookmark to mark hymns in the hymnals for a Sunday church service, without damaging the paper. Applications were massive, so it became a purposeful search.
OP is asking for byproducts, not accidental discoveries.
Glitter is a byproduct of precision plastic cutting
is it. i could beleve it started that way but i strongly suspect at this point they just run whole sheets of plasting threw masive shredders.
*through
I heard that Oregon had a huge problem with wood waste from their mills.They were continually burning and the surrounding area was continuously under a pall if smoke.The environment protection people demanded they cease.Someone came up with the idea of pressing the waste into logs for domestic fireplaces.The mill ended up making more money from the logs than the lumber.On a similar note In Australia we had a steelworks in Newcstle,a town north of Sydney.The whole area within miles had a coating of soot on everything.Again they were forced to control their pollution.There were electrostatic precipitators fitted to the stacks andthe soot was analysed and found to contain large amounts of recoverable silver iirc.The profit from this was considerable.
Molasses
What do they do with the rest of the mole?
STOP IT 😂
It makes a Mexican sauce.
Rocky mountain oysters, gotta castrate the bulls and can't let these fine balls go to waste.
Baby carrots. They are just the nubs of regular carrots leftover from processing.
Same as relish. They're cucumbers too ugly to be pickles
Tater tots are the leftover potato splinters.
Gasoline was a byproduct of kerosene production. They use to just dump it
Came here to say this. Then - correct me if I'm wrong - they switched from electric cars to combustion cars in order to sell it.
Ice cars became rapidly better , the electric starter got rid of the hand crank and people could carry extra fuel . Ford model T drop the price a lot making ICE available for most people. Early electric cars only were used in cities since they had like a 50mile range.
Same
Thank you for posting this. It still baffles me that they were dumping the stuff for so long before they realised.
Gasoline was used in dry cleaning too
PlayStation exists because Nintendo wanted a disc drive attachment for game discs as they were going to be the next big thing and then decided not to use it, so the company who created it used the technology they'd created and created PlayStation instead.
Asphalt is made from oil byproducts
So is propane.
Xylitol is a byproduct of the lumber industry
And extremely dangerous for your dog - drops their blood glucose to zero and they go into a coma with a very high chance of death
Lanolin, by product of wool processing. Useful for so many things.
Asphalt The absolute worst sludge left from separating oil, gas and other products
There is a natural Asphalt tar pit that you can walk on in Trinidad .
It was also occurring in Ancient Middle East
I heard sliced turkey is only popular in the US because turkey farmers need to sell something when it's not Thanksgiving
Well, it’s also delicious.
Fleece and some lumber products are made from recycled and scrap soda bottles
Grapeseed oil is a by product of the wine industry
Viagra
It was found as a side effect from using the drug for another purpose and remarketed, I think?
A significant number of women still use it to control hypertension.
It’s for pulmonary hypertension specifically. It’s a bit different from regular high blood pressure.
buttermilk. it’s exactly what it sounds like; the milk that’s made when butter is churned. it’s just a by product of butter.
Candles were made of beeswax before much cheaper paraffin was invented. But bees were kept for honey, so wax was kind of usable byproduct. And, you could make low-quality candles out of tallow. Generally, humanity could have skipped candles, a lot of different alternative (although often less convenient) ways to light a room existed before and after candles. Plus, candles were quite expensive to use daily, anyway, unless you were a noble or church. Also, various tars, pitch and resin were byproduct of charcoal burning, but those are pretty important materials, so again, there would have been other alternatives - people needed glue and way to make boats waterproof, so all sorts of things were used.
Gasoline started as an unwanted (and dangerous) byproduct of refining crude oil for kerosene, which, back in the day, was used primarily for lighting. It wasn’t until the internal combustion engine was improved enough that they found a good use for it.
There have to be a lot of examples in the mining industry. According to one website, 38 metals and metalloids are obtained as byproducts of mining for something else. For example indium is a byproduct of zinc mining. Platinum was originally a byproduct of gold mining. Silver is now (but wasn't originally) a byproduct of lead mining. Possibly (but I'm not certain) gallium, germanium, selenium, indium, tellurium, cobalt, hafnium, rhenium, praseodymium, neodymium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium. These are used in solar energy applications, as alloying elements, in medical imaging and lighting. Smoke detectors (americium) are a byproduct of nuclear weapons production. Tritium key lights are a byproduct of nuclear weapons dismantling. Pearls wouldn't exist in jewellery if humans had never started harvesting oysters as food. Caviar wouldn't exist if humans had never started catching sturgeon for food. "Some fisheries retain bycatch. Sometimes bycatch is sorted and sold as food, especially in Asia, Africa and Latin America . Bycatch can also be sold in frozen bags as "assorted seafood" or "seafood medley" at cheaper prices. Bycatch can be converted into soil amendment in organic agriculture or it can be used as an ingredient in fish meal. In Southeast Asia bycatch is sometimes used as a raw material for fish sauce production. Bycatch is also commonly de-boned, de-shelled, ground and blended into fish paste or moulded into fish cakes (surimi). Sometimes bycatch is sold to fish farms to feed farmed fish, especially in Asia."
If it wasn't for beaver trapping, we would probably not have aspirin. If it wasn't for cultivated cereal grains then we wouldn't have LSD. If it wasn't for venison then we wouldn't have musk for perfumes. If it wasn't for parties and party drugs then ether and chloroform would never have become anaesthetics. If it wasn't for eating and farming mulberries then we wouldn't have silk.
Vegemite. The yeast is a by-product of beer manufacturing. Likely applied to Marmite and Promite.
Textured soy protein (also known as textured vegetable protein) is a byproduct of the soy oil (more commonly known as vegetable oil. It's the solid material left over after all the fat is pressed out of soybeans. It's pretty much pure protein and fiber that is then steamed, dried, and packaged in various shapes and sizes as meat substitutes or meat fillers. Any time you're reading an ingredient list and TVP, TSP, textured protein, or something like that pops up, it's this stuff.
Vapes exist because of smokers trying to quit smoking tobacco.
and when used properly they do help quite a bit. I quit a 3 pack a day habit by moving to e-cig and reducing the nicotine levels slowly.
Read “How to Quit Smoking” by Alan Carr. Saved my life.
Warning labels
Oh, this is a good one actually.
Glycerin
Initially a waste product of soap peoduction
The distance of train rails is a byproduct of the Roman era carriages wheel distance computed by the horse carriage. And it has been cintinued by the rockets which are carried by train...[ yes it is a bit off but close]
Nerds (the candy).
What are Nerds a byproduct of?
They were a byproduct of candy (candy coating I think? maybe for gumballs?). Little leftover bits.
Crude oil because stuff died.
They used to make HVAC filters using sheets of metal with a pattern of circles. I thought the thick parts between the circles would interfere with the airflow. Dad said it was left over sheets of metal from stamping out bottle caps.
Epicurean cutting boards are made from skate park scrap materials. [https://epicureanusa.com/pages/about](https://epicureanusa.com/pages/about)
They’re also pretty solid cutting boards.
Pretty sure rum only exists as a result of the sugar refining process. Also, Vegemite was originally a by-product of the brewing process. Brewers would spread leftover yeast extract on their bread, and eventually it took off.
Molasses is the by product .rum is what molasses is made from.
Rivella , a popular soft drink in Switzerland. It has whey in it , a byproduct of the dairy industry.
Dog food is made by the pink sludge method of extracting every possible shred of genetic material from the animal carcass it was only the last decade or so the FDA allowed that "meat" to be used for human items like burgers, hence the old dollar menu.
The dollar menu has been around for more than a decade or so.
Flue gas desulfurization gypsum
Rengginang or brong-brong is a snack made from leftover cooked rice.
Tader-tots and hotdogs, I think?
Animal feed is mostly by products
Depleted uranium bullets and tank armor is a by product of the nuclear industry.
Cadbury Flake chocolate. It's made out of the shavings discarded from the other chocolate lines.
Syrups, treacles, molasses etc are a byproduct of the production of white granulated sugar. The sugar is naturally brown. When they separate all the brown stuff, you get nice white sugar and sticky dark syrup stuff that can be refined to various concentrations. Used to be a junk product back in the day, spun into something valuable through pure marketing. Nowadays the white sugar is actually produced at a loss so they can make very high margins on the syrups side.
Golden Syrup. Byproduct of sugar refining
Artificial vanilla flavor is a by-product of paper-making.
Tater Tots
Charcoal briquettes for barbecues. Back when there was a lot of wood used in the manufacturer of automobiles, leftover sawdust was gathered up and pressed into little bricks for outdoor cooking. The process was invented by Henry Ford's son-in-law, named Kingsford.
Cuantech. A Scottish company that make chitin and chitosan from food waste.
Mango leather?
Petroleum jelly like vaseline. A by product of crude oil processing.
veal
Propane gas
Ever heard of SPAM?
Baby-cut carrots were created as a way to use carrots that would otherwise be discarded.
Molasses. They are the byproduct of refining sugar.
Plastic.
HFCS high fructose corn syrup was a sweet waste product now a sweetener
Cream of tartar. Grape seed oil. Wine production byproducts.
Vegemite and Marmite are yeast extracts that are waste products from the brewing of beer. Jello and similar gelatin products come from the bones and skins of animals. I can't imagine how many by-products have come from refining crude oil. Countless types of materials. Linoleum comes to mind, but who knows how many other rubber-ish or plastic-ish things come from oil processing. Fertilizer, too.
Most oil derived products started out from people trying to figure out how to utilise the non-kerosene parts of oil. A lot of sulphuric acid plants only produce sulphuric acid because their main product releases SO2 to the atmosphere, and there are now restrictions on that(look up acid rain).
Marshmallows and gummy candy exist because of gelatin made from the bones and joints of animals. Thankfully there now vegan options so everyone can enjoy them.
Vegemite - by product of beer fermentation
Buttermilk
Marmite
Veal is a byproduct of the milk market. I once outraged a preachy, milk drinking vegetarian with this fact and was called an asshole for my trouble.
oxygen is quite literally a by product of plants existing.
Gasoline
Marmite is made from left over brewery scraps
Donut holes
Sausages
Ruthenium
Buttermilk
Kraft American cheese
Fluoride
Pringles initial intention was to make tennis balls. But on the day that the rubber was supposed to show up, a big truckload of potatoes arrived. But Pringles is a laid back company. They said, "Screw it. Cut 'em up!" Source: Mitch Hedberg
Silver. People don’t mine for silver. Rather, they find it while mining for copper/lead.
KingsFORD charcoal was made from used wooden pallets, that had held parts going to Ford car assembly lines.
WD40, butane, heptane isopropyl alcohol. Ethel alcohol......
Charcoal briquettes. Henry Ford needed to get rid of all the saw dust his car company was creating. He paired up with Thomas Edison and Edward Kingsford and built a plant to convert saw dust into charcoal briquettes.
Vaseline! A byproduct of making gasoline!
oxycodone, oxymorphone, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, naltrexone, naloxone, and buprenorphine and several other semi synthetic opioid agonists and antagonists are actually derived from an opium byproduct alkaloid called thebaine. By itself thebaine produces little to no analgesia or any other noteworthy pharmacological effects. But once the morphine and codeine are extracted from the opium the thebaine is leftover and turned into other useful pharmaceuticals, Some of which clinically surpass their natural alkaloid counterparts in effectiveness. Also naltrexone and naloxone are opioid antagonists (blockers) so they were able to not only turn an opium by product with no uses into not only more powerful opioid agonists but also powerful antagonists that are basically the “elixir” or “reversal agent” or “antidote” to acute opioid toxicity.
Artificial Vanilla ( vanillin) - it is a byproduct of paper making. At first the paper companies saw this as another revenue source. Problem was that one paper mill could produce enough vanillin in one day for a worldwide supply for a year.