Data on leather

 

Leather shoes, bags and jackets are responsible for almost seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than synthetic leather alternatives are.

More greenhouse gas emissions are caused by turning cowhides into leather, than would be emitted if we simply discarded skins from slaughtered cattle.

A jacket made of cow skin leather requires 14 times more water to be used on farm and in processing, than the same one made of synthetic leather.

 

Producing one cow skin leather tote bag requires the amount of water someone would drink over almost 24 years of their life.

Producing a single pair of cow skin leather boots emits 66 kilograms of carbon equivalent emissions.

In one pair of cow skin shoes, there is a water footprint of a massive 7,612.36 litres, tied to both farm and tannery.

 

To make fewer than 9 Brazilian leather jackets, 10,000 square metres of biodiverse land must be cleared or kept cleared.

About 988 square metres of land is required to produce 1m2 of Brazilian leather, compared to 16m2 for Piñatex.

Just 1 Brazilian leather handbag can require 1,000 square metres of land — potentially in the Amazon — to be cleared.