SU SAN SHAPIRO HAS MORE TONS OF LEATHER SCPSRA ARE DISCARDED EACH YEAR BY MANUFACTURERS OF EVERYTHING FMRO BOOTS TO BAGS OFTEN ENDING UP IN LANDFILLS. THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF MATERLIA THAT IS COMING IN ...

While leather is considered to be ethical since the source of hides is from animals already in the food chain, the leather production process is both chemical and water-intensive, and the byproducts ...

When leather expert Carmen Hijosa visited the Philippines to consult with the leather industry there, she discovered two big problems: The leather was poor quality, and producing it was bad both for ...

Italian brand names such as Gucci and Prada have become synonymous with style and high fashion around the world. But in Italy the leather goods that have made these designer brands so popular mean ...

MycoWorks, a company making a fungal-based biomaterial that can replace leather, brought in a fresh round of funding — $125 million in Series C financing — to fund a production plant for scaling the ...