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>Some will be replaced with wax

I'm a little behind on the times it seems, but how would wax be produced in such industrial quantities? Which kind of wax? There's several, some artificial some not.

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Wax paper and parchment paper (often silicone impregnated) are already huge established businesses. The amounts used in other products in already substantial.

So, not real wax, but another chemical.

Wax is a chemical.

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