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Brazilian shoe companies join to find solution for industrial waste

05/11/2001

The yearly production in Brazil of 670 million pairs of shoes generates 120,000 tons of waste, of which 37,200 tons are chrome tanned leather trimmings, a material considered highly dangerous by ABNT, the Brazilian Association for Technical Standards.

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