Increase in estimates of hides going to landfill
05/11/2019
During 2019, low-quality hides whose processing cost exceeds the price they can be sold for have ended up in landfill, a situation many in the industry thought would never happen (see World Leather April/May for an in-depth assessment).
David Peters said: “It was originally estimated that the volume of this unwanted raw material was around 15% of the global hide supply, but with new traceability testing algorithms we have been able to enhance this number to possibly 18%, being the equivalent of 54 million hides per year.
“This shocking number of 147,945 hides per day are literally being dumped into landfills. That’s over 4,000 tons per day which is, perhaps, far greater than the recovery rate of plastic bottles from the ocean.”
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