What a waste

摘要

The Leather and Hide Council of America (LHCA) saw the light of day at the start of 2020 following a merger between the US Hide, Skin and Leather Association (USHSLA) and the Leather Industries of America (LIA). It promised at the outset to serve as a voice for the entire leather supply chain, both in the US and abroad. It has wasted no time at all in living up to this. Towards the end of the second month of its existence, LHCA carefully prepared an infographic to share with mainstream media organisations, showing that hides are a valuable resource and that millions of the hides the US produced last year went to waste. It pointed out to its media contacts that this wasted material would have been enough to make millions of pairs of shoes and other consumer products that brands, manufacturers and retailers may, instead, have decided to make using plastic-based synthetic substitutes.