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?
Look up where plastic comes from.
Vegan leather is what they call plastic imitation leather nowadays
I recall the term being pleather. Plastic leather.
Technically if they are organic matter compressed over eons into polycarbons, they’re still dinosaurs, so not vegan
Well a lot of it turns out to be dead trees not dinosaurs, but I’m sure I’ll get “um actually” but someone who is a bigger expert
Coal is from trees. Oil is from bacterial mats.
“Well. There it is.”
I don’t really understand all the hate/cynicism towards vegan leather. Like yeah obviously plastic is bad for the environment, but raising cows and dumping thousands of tons of chromium into rural waterways for the tanning process aren’t good either. Leather is actually far worse for the environment by some metrics.
Plus there’s the fact that most leather is sealed with plastic/acrylic to increase its longevity anyway, unless you’re buying something wicked expensive.
I guess petroleum came from plant.
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.
Polyurethane couldn’t sell the couches because it simply as sexy as plant-based leather.
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?
I guess. Dead cow skin uses very little polyurethane
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.
Veg tanning is a thing too, growing in popularity and better for artisanal work.
