To chrome or not to chrome?

摘要

The drive towards eco products is as topical as ever, with many suppliers of leather, retailers and brands keen to provide an eco-offering either directly or at least withrnsome assurance of the green credentials of the product life cycle.rnThis article, supplied by BLC - Leather Technology Centre looks at the usernof chromium in tanning as part of the product life cycle.rnThe manufacture of leather does have an environmental impact, in as much as in the manufacturing process not all the inputs end up in the leather. Also when leather is disposed of the product becomes a waste material. What seems to have happened is that the gauge of a leather's 'eco-ness' is measured by the absence of certain restricted chemicals or the method of tannage rather than any consideration of the real environmental impact.