For Nike, leather is a material that is featured in many footwear styles. However, leather also has the second-highest environmental impact on Nike’s carbon emissions and water usage.
Because of that, Nike has come up with a solution: Nike Flyleather.
Nike Flyleather is made with the 30 percent of a cow’s hide that is discarded during the typical leather manufacturing process. Nike takes what is not used and turns it into fibers, which are then combined with synthetic fibers and a fabric infrastructure to form one material. That material then goes through a finishing process, including pigmentation, and is then put on a roll to be cut.