Sustainability research in the leather industry: A critical review of progress and opportunities for future research

Omoloso, Oluwaseyi; Mortimer, Kathleen; Wise, William R.; Jraisat, Luai

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125441

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“…In this way, the leather industry is making great efforts to apply cleaner processes while substituting chemical products for natural products and searching for alternatives to chrome tanning such as organic tanning consisting of phenolic synthetic products, aluminum salts, as well as vegetable tanning [ 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ].…”

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Characterization of Wet Olive Pomace Waste as Bio Based Resource for Leather Tanning

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Olive mill wastes represent an important environmental problem. Their high phenol, lipid, and organic acid concentrations turn them into phytotoxic materials. Specifically, wet olive pomace (WOP) is the waste generated in the two-phase continuous extraction process. WOP is a paste with around 60% water. The total volume of WOP generated is around 0.25 L/kg of olives processed. Its current waste management practices result in environmental problems as soil contamination, underground seepage, water-bodies pollution, and foul odor emissions. Some valorization alternatives include composting, biological treatments, direct combustion for energy production, or direct land application. The leather industry is making great efforts to apply cleaner processes while substituting chemical products for natural products. In this way, different alternatives are being studied, such as the use of zeolites, triazine derivatives, grape seed extract, olive leaf extract, etc. In this work, the use of wet olive pomace is presented as a possible alternative to conventional vegetable tannins (mimosa, quebracho, chestnut, etc.). Although different projects and studies have been developed for the valorization of olive mill wastes, there is completely a new approach to the WOP application for tanning purposes. This study shows that WOP has a significant number of polyphenolic substances, so it has a great potential to be used as a tanning agent. Specifically, this study has been able to determine that, of the polyphenols present in WOP, 39.6% correspond to tannins that are capable of tanning the skin. Additionally, it contains 14.3% non-tannins, that is, molecules that by themselves do not have the capacity to tan the leather but promote the tanning mechanism and improve the properties of the tanned leather.

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“…Today, enterprises face more complicated business scenarios due to various demands that require them to adapt to the character and demands of customers, technology adoption, and integration with global markets (Centobelli, Cerchione, & Ertz, 2020;Mukonza & Swarts, 2020). Almost all types of businesses, including leather processing businesses, experience problems regarding product quality, increased product diversity, and constant market fluctuations that make business challenges even more severe (Agrawal & Singh, 2019;Moktadir et al, 2020;Omoloso, Mortimer, Wise, & Jraisat, 2020;Paul, Antunes, Covington, Evans, & Phillips, 2013). The leather, leather goods and footwear manufacturing industries are under high pressure to innovate their operational performance in the face of recent advances (Moktadir et al, 2020).…”

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Quality Management for Leather Industry to Increase Competitiveness in the Global Market

Irjayanti¹,

Azis²

2021

HOLISTICA – Journal of Business and Public Administration

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The Indonesian government is targeting leather products, especially from West Java to become one of the export commodities that will encourage national economic growth. The existence of a leather industry particularly in the city of Garut has attracted many Indonesian researchers over the years to investigate the condition through many fields of research. However, the latest research identified several barriers related to the leather business development in Garut city, which was related to the optimization ratio of its performance and product quality. This study aimed to design a quality management model and key performance indicators to make this sector competitive in the global market. The research method used was inductive with a qualitative approach and a constructivist grounded theory in developing a quality management model. Theoretical and snowball sampling was chosen in identifying potential participants. The findings of this study contribute to the knowledge and practice of quality management models with key performance indicators that can be used to measure current conditions as a foundation for future improvement in the leather industry to produce competitive products that meet global standard. KPIs were formulated with certain criteria and should be applied by business actors.

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“…One strategy to reduce food-feed competition is to reduce the proportion of components for human use in animal feed (Schader et al, 2015) with non-conventional alternatives, such as by-products and agroindustrial waste (El Sayed, 2020; Schader et al, 2015), many of them with inadequate disposal processes that pollute the environment (Caro et al, 2014;Sivaram and Barik, 2019). These wastes, after proper processing, could be reincorporated into the production chain, making production systems more sustainable (Schader et al, 2015;Sivaram and Barik, 2019;Omoloso et al, 2021). Among these strategies, the production of unicellular proteins has been proposed from residues, protein isolates and hydrolysates, co-products of the biofuel industry (Makkar et al, 2018), earthworm meal and other residues (Castro-Bedriñana et al, 2020), other residues from the animal industry that are incorporated into other productive subsystems must be identi ed, such is the case of the leather industry, which generates different residues (Kanagaraj et al, 2015;Omoloso et al, 2021).…”

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“…These wastes, after proper processing, could be reincorporated into the production chain, making production systems more sustainable (Schader et al, 2015;Sivaram and Barik, 2019;Omoloso et al, 2021). Among these strategies, the production of unicellular proteins has been proposed from residues, protein isolates and hydrolysates, co-products of the biofuel industry (Makkar et al, 2018), earthworm meal and other residues (Castro-Bedriñana et al, 2020), other residues from the animal industry that are incorporated into other productive subsystems must be identi ed, such is the case of the leather industry, which generates different residues (Kanagaraj et al, 2015;Omoloso et al, 2021). For every ton of bovine leather, 200 kg of usable leather is obtained, the waste includes 250 kg of solid waste free of contamination and without chemical products, 200 kg of tanning waste and 50 tons of wastewater (Hüffer and Taeger, 2004) that must be properly treated.…”

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Nutritional Quality of Bovine Cheeks Meal From Tannery Industry as a Protein Source for Monogastric Animals

Castro-Bedriñana

Chirinos-Peinado

Lizárraga-Velásquez

et al. 2022

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The digestibility of dry matter (DM), crude protein (CP), ether extract (EE), and the concentration of digestible energy (DE) and metabolizable energy (ME) of bovine cheek meal (CM), included in 15 and 20% were compared. The bovine cheeks not chemically contaminated, prior to the pre-tanning stage of the hides, were collected, washed, cooked, dried, and ground for their nutritional evaluation. As the CM cannot constitute 100% of the guinea pig diet, to estimate its digestibility the indigestibility coefficients of a reference diet (Barley meal-BM) were used and assuming that the indigestibility of the BM is the same in the diets with 15% and 20% CM the digestibility of CM was estimated. Twelve six-month-old male guinea pigs were used, divided into three groups of four animals per group, housed in individual metabolic cages for the total collection of urine-free feces. The DM, CP and EE digestibility’s of CM-15% and CM-20% were 72.30, 95.71 and 78.34%, and 76.34, 96.03 and 82.37%, and the DE and ME contents were 4089.5, 3353.8 and 4129.0 and 3385.8 (P < 0.05). The results would indicate that the production of CM would be a viable option to obtain a protein meal of high nutritional value for feeding guinea pigs and could totally replace other less available and expensive protein sources, such as fish meal or soybean meal, contributing to sustainable animal production and with environmental decontamination strategies.

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Sustainability research in the leather industry: A critical review of progress and opportunities for future research

Cited by 59 publications

References 69 publications

Characterization of Wet Olive Pomace Waste as Bio Based Resource for Leather Tanning

Characterization of Wet Olive Pomace Waste as Bio Based Resource for Leather Tanning

Quality Management for Leather Industry to Increase Competitiveness in the Global Market

Nutritional Quality of Bovine Cheeks Meal From Tannery Industry as a Protein Source for Monogastric Animals

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