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?

  • rapchee@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    we’ve (as human) been doing things for thousands of years, which was barely noticeable because there were less than a billion of us until the 1800s, less than 400 million until 1400s and the obvs even less before

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      2 hours ago

      My point was more that harmful chemicals in the sense of chromium salts etc. aren’t present in veg tan which, for the most part, is boiling it in a load of tree bark.