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When choosing a car, its environmental credentials go much further than just opting for electric power. People are becoming more conscious about sustainability and many drivers are now looking at the whole-Iife sustainability of their vehicles (see Figure 1). Whole-life sustainability involves assessing how much of the vehicle can be recycled and what proportion of materials used to build it are made from circular materials.
However, sustainability commitments go beyond the consumer. Drive Sustainability is a global partnership between 10 leading automotive manufacturers, including BMW Group, Mercedes¬Benz Group, Ford, Honda, Jaguar Land Rover, Scania CV AB, Toyota Motor Europe, Volkswagen Group, Volvo Cars and Volvo Group. The partnership aimed to bring a focus on sourcing sustainable materials in automotive supply chains by assessing material function, future supply, end-of-life recycling rate and environmental risks.
Despite being a traditional upholstery covering, leather is sometimes avoided by buyers due to ethical reasons of some consumers. As a long-lived hard-wearing material, leather outperforms many other fabrics and, by knowing where the leather originates from and exactly how it is produced, it can be incorporated into vehicles to massively improve the vehicle's sustainability credentials. |
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Environmental credentials of vehicles in INTERNATIONAL LEATHER MAKER (ILM), N° 53 (05-06/2022)
