Comment on Most of plant based leather uses a lot of polyurethane
qevlarr@lemmy.world 2 months agoOil doesn’t come from wood, right?
Comment on Most of plant based leather uses a lot of polyurethane
qevlarr@lemmy.world 2 months agoOil doesn’t come from wood, right?
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months 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.