Eco-benign Management Options for Cleaner Chrome Tanning

Abstract

<span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" color:black;mso-ansi-language:en-in;mso-fareast-language:en-in;mso-bidi-language:="" hi"="" lang="EN-IN">Environmental regulatory laws have enforced the global leather industry to seek constant innovations in cleaner production. The pollution load on the environment due to increased chrome tanning activity has received much attention in India. It is recognised that one of the convincing solutions to the problems of sustenance of chrome tanning rests in the reduction of discharge of chrome in the effluent through in-plant control measures and cleaner tanning <span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";="" mso-fareast-font-family:hiddenhorzocr;color:black;mso-ansi-language:en-in;="" mso-fareast-language:en-in;mso-bidi-language:hi"="" lang="EN-IN">practices. <span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";="" mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:en-in;="" mso-fareast-language:en-in;mso-bidi-language:hi"="" lang="EN-IN">Better arranagement on the extent of discharge of chromium and compliance to discharge norms are the need of the hour. Here, an attempt has been made to focus issues relating to chrome tanning in India and discuss the technological means to achieve better arranagement of chrome tanning in India.</span></span></span>