Designers and artists, especially those with small-scale and start-up operations, are making a commitment to zero-waste an integral part of their strategies. Tanners and many finished leather product brands are proud of preventing hides and skins, by-products of the farming, meat and dairy sectors, from going to waste. However, this is not enough for the bag brands set up in recent years by Bea Recoder in Paris and by Iseabal Hendry in the Highlands of Scotland, to name just two of the new zero-waste champions.
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