Milk provides the basis for an eco-friendly shorter process for skin preservation and leather manufacture

The traditional beamhouse method for tanning skins to produce leather uses copious amounts of water, large quantities of chemicals deemed to be dangerous by the public and produces large quantities of liquid waste (90 kg/ton of raw hide) that have become a significant problem due to environmental co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yi-Hsuan Tu, Meekyung Ahn, Jasna Rakonjac, Geoff Holmes, Gillian Norris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-06-01
Series:Cleaner Engineering and Technology
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666790822000696