POLLUTANT FACTORS IN PROCESSING OF HIDES AND SKINS.

Leather sector is an important source of materials for various industries and fields, some of them being listed as top fields. Waste from the leather industry and leather clothing can be realised by using several processing methods in different areas of interest. European tanneries produce, on average, 2.14 kg of waste per square meter of leather produced. This figure could be an apparently significant environmental value, but we must consider the overall management and final destination of waste from tanneries. Waste problem as a whole is not simple, it requires a comprehensive approach in all aspects of management - identification and inventory, the proper treatment to annihilation, recycling, reuse, which implies concern, financial and technological support, strength working properly qualified and not least the existence of a legal framework, institutional and administrative framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]