Certifications for Sustainability in Footwear and Leather Sectors

One of the most generating sectors in the world is footwear and leather sectors. These industries involve lots of chemical usage in order to transfer the raw material into finished product. Thus, footwear and leather sectors produce pollutants which are harmful and toxic to the human and environment. Awareness based on the toxicity of pollutants among the consumers is increasing rapidly, and also, they would like to select the environmentally products. In order to demonstrate, the performance of the industry certifications is assessed based on the social, economic safety issues adopted by the sectors. The sustainability is combined with the certification process to suggest that the enterprise fulfills the standards. This chapter explains some of the popular certification which is responsible for the footwear and leather sectors as an evidence for the sustainability.