Environment, Health & Safety
Environmental Projects
The main environmental impact from our tanneries and shoe factories derives from energy and water consumption and waste production. ECCO intends to make continued and dedicated efforts to ensuring optimum environmental performance and there are constantly new projects investigated to reduce the environmental impact. One of the current projects in our tanneries focuses on replacing diesel with bio fuel extracted from fleshy waste material.The fleshy tissue - which represents approximately 20% by weight of the raw hide – actually has a coveted energy potential in terms of bio fuel. This is utilized in the tannery’s boilers when heating water. In this way diesel is replaced by bio fuel as energy source. This initiative is a good example of how to cooperate in a closed loop system inhouse at a tannery. A concrete way of conducting the ECCO Group Policy of Environment, Health and Safety in reality – by focusing on the four R’s: Reduce, Re-use, Repair and Re-cycle.
Read more about the exciting project here: From Flesh to Fuel (pdf, 3130,96 KB)
Other projects:
- Sludge Reduction (pdf, 446 KB)
- LIFE Project - Eco Friendly Tanning (pdf, 1480 KB)
Go to ECCO's page about leather for further environmental projects.