Canadian start-up saves sheepskins from landfill
11/07/2014
Pebble in the Pond, an environmental campaign group that set up in the coastal community near Vancouver in 2008, learned that many sheepskins from farms and abattoirs in the area were going to waste and saw an opportunity to make a difference.
Thanks to a local funding programme called Job Creation Partnership, it applied for and received funding of around $125,000 and has used the money to set up a small, artisan sheepskin tannery.
Named Tanned, Wild and Woolly, the new tannery aims to produce shoe linings, seat covers for bicycles and motorbikes, under-saddle horseback riding pads and bathmats. At the same time, it will create employment and divert the skins away from their former destination, landfill waste.
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