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?
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 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.
It must be pretty hard to understand if you don’t think about it too hard.
Plastic is just as bad for the environment, not to mention people’s health, as those cows.
You clearly haven’t chugged chromium water
Chromium-based tanning is only 1 kind of tanning, but yeah, chromium’s one of those chemicals which needs to be limited more-carefully, among our ecologies.
Vegetable-based tanning also exists, & I’m no expert, so there could be multiple way I don’t know about.
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