Waste not want not

摘要

Every so often, a story about leather or the leather industry sparks the worldwide media's imagination and ends up making headlines, generating comment pieces and getting ordinary people to think a little deeper about the world around them. Such stories usually involve a celebrity and what the media perceives to be an outrageous opinion or action - take the example of pop star Britney Spears, who in 2007 demanded to be allowed to leave a plane headed from Los Angeles to Florida minutes before it took off because it did not have leather seats.