Puma will have to stop using leather in its famous football boots and trainers because it is such an environmentally damaging product, the sportswear company’s executive chairman has said.
“I think eventually we’ll have to look at alternative materials, there’s no question about it,” Jochen Zeitz told the Financial Times in an interview at the UN Rio+20 earth summit. “We should eat less meat, all of us, and we should use less leather, I mean that’s reality.”