Episode
How Do They Do It?: Polysulphate Fertilizer, Maple Syrup, Batik Printed Fabrics
Overview
How do they mine a million tonnes of fertiliser from below the sea? And, how do they hand print millions of colourful clothes using the ancient art of batik?
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 16
- Episode
- Episode 17
- Air date
- 2019-08-08
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Polysulphate Fertilizer, Maple Syrup, Batik Printed Fabrics is Episode 17 in Season 16 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2019-08-08. The runtime is 22 min.
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