iPhone Cases Made From…Plants!

Arent petrochemicals derived from plants?

 

Honda has seat covers that are made from corns that Honda grow by themselves.

 

Not in the way the term is usually used. Petroleum began as plants, but is generally considered a category separate from materials made from plants grown in our era.

Plants that died 300 million years ago = fossil fuels and petrochemicals.

Plants that were harvested by people living today = renewable resource.

The distinction between "plant-based" and "petrochemical" may not be strictly valid, but it is useful to distinguish between renewable and non-renewable resources, since something that took 300 million years to make, and required conditions that may never exist again on the Earth, is in human terms a finite, limited, non-renewable resource; while something grown on farms today is a renewable resource.

 

if I'm not mistaken, petro was never plant matter. Oil is, I believe, the remains of marine organisms that's been heated. Coal, OTOH, is the result of compressed/heated plant material.