And why wouldn't it? Tapes as far as I know cost pennies to manufacture. It's easily over 90% plastic in most cases. The low quality ingredient on a low end tap

And why wouldn't it? Tapes as far as I know cost pennies to manufacture. It's easily over 90% plastic in most cases. The low quality ingredient on a low end tape is probably still ferric oxide - not exactly an expensive chemical if I know anything about chemistry. Perhaps cobalt is still heavily used as part of the coating as well.