Ah, OK. TIL.
Comment on Most of plant based leather uses a lot of polyurethane
barnacul@lemmy.world 10 hours agoPolyurethane is made by (among other steps) mixing paint thinner and phosgene gas. It’s a nasty dangerous process.
The only time plants are involved is when they mix in some fiber pulp at the end.
Plant based plastics exist, but they are not polyurethane.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
la508@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I can’t stress enough how much heavy lifting the phrase “among other steps” is doing here.