A lobby claims that leather seats benefit the planet
This page is translated from the original post "Un lobby assure que les sièges cuir profitent à la planète" in French.

The lobby One 4 Leather provides precise figures indicating that the use of leather in car interiors is good for the planet.
This is a hotly debated topic, especially regarding the use of animal leather to upholster car seats. Feeling that business is slipping away on the altar of demagogy, the British lobby One 4 Leather has decided to strike back to denounce the nonsense of certain decisions.
According to the association, the automotive industry would consume about 35 million skins per year. All these skins would end up in landfills where they decompose and emit an additional 644,000 tons of CO2 annually. That is, according to One 4 Leather, the equivalent of 6.4 billion kilometers or 1.6 million times the distance of Route 66. Images are always helpful to visualize…

The report asserts that leather for automobiles is only a by-product of the meat industry and that no animal is raised solely for its skin. 35 million skins would come from 331 million cattle, amounting to 2.18 billion m³ of leather. That’s double the volume of Mount Everest (more numbers).
40% of this volume would already end up in landfills due to lack of use, which equates to the emissions of 6,650 Airbus A380s. Still more numbers? Collectively, the skins preserved by the automotive industry represent 1.8 times the Earth’s circumference at the equator.
Essentially, One 4 Leather urges authorities and manufacturers to increase their use of leather (which is the role of a lobby). “Automobile manufacturers want to promote more eco-friendly options than leather, such as PU and PVC materials. However, most alternatives to leather contain over 80% plastic. It is the low amount of plants or vegetables (mushrooms, pineapple, cactus) that makes headlines. These composite materials are difficult and currently very expensive to recycle, so they will inevitably end up in landfills.”
The debate is underway.
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