Comment on Most of plant based leather uses a lot of polyurethane

• A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  • millions of years

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• qevlarr@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oil doesn’t come from wood, right?

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    correct, iirc it’s from absurd quantities of cyanobacteria in the oceans around when life got started.

    Trees turned into coal, specifically trees from before fungi had evolved to decompose the wood, so it was able to just accumulate.

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