Tanners look to bio-based chemicals
Despite vast reductions in water and chemical use, tanners are still looking for ways to make their techniques more sustainable.
Despite vast reductions in water and chemical use, tanners are still looking for ways to make their techniques more sustainable.
Once you’ve crafted your leather design, you may well want to give it some kind of finishing.
The tanning industry is often regarded as one with very high water consumption because historically, it has been. But great strides have been taken to change this, and still many companies are striving to do better.
“People who want to ‘buy green’ should be able to do so, confident that they aren’t being misled,” says Sarah Cardell, interim CEO of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) which is currently investigating fashion brands including Asos and
Sourcing the right leather for your design can be quite intimidating when you first start crafting - so here’s a little bit of guidance.
Corporate social responsibility: what is it, and what does it have to do with leather?
Just 24 years ago, Alla Almasuri worked in a supermarket. Now he owns a high-tech leather manufacturing company and has a revolutionary plan to move the leather industry to zero waste.
Episode four of Rewind – ‘Our Future’— ties together the themes of the first three episodes to offer a vision of the future where practices from the past, including sensitive farming and the best use of leather and other natural materials, can
Amid all the confusion about how to calculate the sustainability of different materials, we need to put the record straight: Leather is more sustainable than manmade alternatives.
Episode Two of Rewind – the new documentary series that sets out the case for leather’s role in a more sustainable future – ‘Fashion’, looks at the impact of fast fashion, the environmental cost of synthetic oil derived fabrics, and how long
Here is our quick guide to some commonly used terms in the world of leather.
We have discussed sustainability and environmental impact assessments many times on this website, but here’s one simple way to change our behaviour to help the planet – make more use of the things you have.
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