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Increase in estimates of hides going to landfill

05/11/2019

Our latest blog by columnist David Peters highlights how the estimate of hides that end up in landfill has risen. 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...

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