VDL makes a positve contribution to leather’s ‘zero allocation’ claims
29/06/2017
As part of a wider project to give European consumers clear and accurate information on green products, the leather industry has taken part in a long-running exercise to gauge the carbon footprint of leather, working with other industries that use animal by-products.
Leather’s partners in this exercise rejected the idea that leather’s share of the upstream carbon footprint of a hide should be zero, but COTANCE said on June 29 that efforts to win the argument received a new boost recently thanks to information that VDL has submitted to the European Commission as part of its contribution to the exercise.
In its submission, VDL said that failure to discriminate between the products, the by-products and the waste products that come from cattle is unfair and that equating products and by-products in particular brings “negative consequences” for companies that work with by-products such as hides to prevent them from going to waste.
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