If a start-up ‘invented’ leather today
29/08/2018
Speaking in Portland in mid-August at a seminar entitled Positive Voices for Leather, hosted by the North West Materials Show, Mr Graebin said that leather contributes much more to the circular economy than it is often given credit for.
He invited audience members to imagine that there were no leather industry and that, for centuries, farmers and meat companies had simply burned or buried animal hides and skins in the ground because they had no use for them.
Then imagine, he said, that an enterprising, environmentally focused start-up discovered that you could use the same material to make shoes. That company would receive every praise and honour under the sun, he suggested, and shoe companies would queue up to buy the material.
Leather Naturally spokesperson Mike Redwood and World Footwear chief executive, Simon Yarwood, were the other speakers at the same seminar.
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