New Sustainability Attributes - Leather

[JHFWBeadsAndFindings]

Hi all,

When i found out we can add New Sustainability Attributes, i was like "YEAH!" and i wanted to add that directly to my listings.

But,

no attribute for my "locally tanned leather" bracelets and necklaces. 

Finally i found one of the best leather you can imagine: Local. Not mass production. As original as it can be. But i can not add this.

Is there maybe another way to add this in the future Etsy? Maybe with "add more"?

This is also a bit of a feedback to Etsy

[Fantasticaps]

Ouch this hurts, but I have the same problem with another material, cotton. I can´t add recycled cotton which I partly use for my work. I was also "YEAH" when I read about it and was very disappointed that I couldn´t add it. Sustainability is such a big thing so I hope Etsy will enlarge the list of materials. 

[CatsWhiskersCurios]

That's an interesting one.  Many people would consider leather to be unsustainable full stop, so that could open a can or worms and distract from what I assume is Etsy's goal of focusing on the obvious and easy to categorise elements of sustainability.

[JHFWBeadsAndFindings]

I hear you Some people don't eat meat. Many because it is made from animals. But some do. Just like me. Than isn't it wonderful to use everything? So it will not be waste? Sometimes i make leather myself from the salmon i eat

[CatsWhiskersCurios]

@JHFWBeadsAndFindings

Oh I get your point absolutely.  I guess the issue is how/where would you draw the line at what is or isn't sustainable leather?

[JHFWBeadsAndFindings]

@CatsWhiskersCurios 

Well, I think "cheap" mass production of leather from low wage countries, whether or not child labour, is not sustainable. Here i think mass production is in my opinion not sustainable. I, for example, use natural products to tan my leather. I do not know what they use for tan in mass products.