Why would you call something “plant based” when it uses a lot of plastic which after short time degrades and exposes it to the environment?
I guess petroleum came from plant.
Polyurethane couldn’t sell the couches because it simply as sexy as plant-based leather.
Not all plant based leather uses plastic. It’s unfortunate that plant+plastic mixes are allowed to call themselves plant based leather.
“Real” leather (A.K.A. someone else’s skin) is also usually coated in plastic and processed with extremely harmful chromium salts, so it’s usually not any better than the worst leather alternative.
You’d be shocked what they allow to be called leather. I expect the environmental impact of leather is far worse than the production of vinyl. Tanning is pretty nasty.
Just because a movie is “based” on a book doesn’t mean the movie is made of paper.
Checkmate vegetables.
as opposed to…dead cow skin?
It would be cruel to use the skin of a live cow.
They don’t live long without skin.
As long as there is meat consumption there will be dead skin. I am open for all kind of alternatives but plastic none for me. Also real leather can be tanned in a bad way. So its a difficult topic in general.
