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Leather waste can cut out noise for leathergoods workers

20/01/2017

A new research project in Colombia has found that unused finished leather trimmings from the leathergoods and footwear industries can be used to make soundproofing screens for machinery in accessory and shoe factories. In an unusual example of the benefits of a circular economy, students from the National University in Bogotá found that leather...

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