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In order to avoid decrease of mechanical strength, leather wastes can be used to fill hollow specimen or to separate panels.
A huge amount of feather and leather wastes are generated every year as a by-product from the poultry and tannery industry due to continuous meat consumption worldwide.
This research work is focused on analyzing the potential application of two leather wastes (wet-blue chrome shavings (CS) and leather buffing dust (BD)) and two carpentry wastes (wood shavings (WS) and sawdust (SD)) as alternative building thermal insulation materials.
This paper presents an experimental study of the effect of adding leather wastes, namely chrome shavings (CS) and buffing dust (BD), on mechanical and thermal properties of cement and plaster composite specimens.
Microorganisms isolated from keratin-rich environments such as poultry feather wastes, slaughterhouse wastes, and leather wastes, have high keratinolytic activity (Brandelli et al. 2010; Fakhfakh-Zouari et al. 2010; Khardenavis et al. 2009).
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The diversion of leather waste from the landfill saves 100,000 miles in truck journeys per year, the company said.
One issue, according to UK Leather Federation director Kerry Senior, is that there have been many occasions in which companies have misrepresented lower-quality synthetics – or materials made from leather waste – as leather.
Acid leaching was investigated to remove phosphorus from the ashes of thermally-treated (gasification and combustion process) footwear leather waste in order to obtain a good quality raw material for the production of a ferrochromium alloy.
This method is simple and relatively free from interference of closely associated ions and is successfully applied to the determination of sulfide in real samples of spiked water and leather waste water.
"We have the advantage that our waste is about 5% whereas leather's waste is about 25% so there is a price to pay for waste as well," she said.
In this study, solid waste from tanneries, i.e., chromium-tanned leather shaving waste, was used as the adsorbent to treat dye-containing effluents generated through a wet end process, carried out in a pilot-scale tannery drum to investigate the possibility of using this technique as pretreatment in the wastewater process.
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