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LHCA highlights environmental costs of wasted hides

20/05/2021
LHCA highlights environmental costs of wasted hides

The Leather and Hide Council of America (LHCA) has produced an ‘infographic’ pdf that highlights the environmental problems caused by wasting 4.8 million US cattle hides per year. Those 4.8 million discarded or destroyed hides could have been used to produce leather for approximately 86.4 million pairs of shoes, 96 million footballs or 1.6...

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