Most sofas, chairs, rugs, and curtains now use materials that are almost fully plastic

When buying interior for our house we discovered most sofas, chairs, rugs, carpets, curtains now use materials that are almost without exception fully plastic

And of course they shed all this plastic in their lifetime that they sit in your house, and you just end up breathing in nanoplastics over 10-20 years

It's very hard to find stuff with natural materials, these days and if you do find it, it's super super expensive

Also most times the sales people look at you like you're high when you ask for it

But sir this is "ultrasuede alcantra olefin", all those terms are bullshit, and it's all plastic

Unless they say cotton, wool, linen, silk, cork, or actual natural latex, it's generally just plastic and you'll be breathing it in (or worse)

They often use fancy names to cover up it's all plastic:

• "vegan leather" that's literally just polyurethane (PU) or polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic
• "leatherette/pleather" same PVC
• "air leather" perforated PU
• "bonded leather" leather scraps glued together with PU
• "alcantra" luxury sofas use this and guess what: it's polyester and PU blended
• "ultrasuede" synthetic microfiber plastic
• "olefin" stain resistant polypropylene (PP) plastic
• "polyamide" a mesh of synthetic polymers
• "lustrous" or "trevia cs", both used in curtains, both fully polyester

For our house we mostly have cotton, wool and leather finishes and it wasn't easy to get that, most is custom finishing because almost nobody asks for it!

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