Hake leather can be the answer to Chubut waste-management problem
01/05/2013
One of the organisers, Fabián García, has explained to local media that the authorities have high hopes of being able to make use of a material to which Chubut has substantial access. A specialist artisan fish tanner from the northern province of Entre Ríos, Fabián Trachter, will travel south to take part in the workshops, which will take place in different towns.
Mr García said: “What we want is to be able to make something of the waste products from our local fish processing plants. We are very interested, for instance, in seeing if we can make leather from hake skin. And what we hope to do in the end is set up a whole value chain from this. Huge quantities of the material are being thrown away every day, and this is causing us quite a serious waste-management problem.”
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