![]() Here the Code of Conduct and Social Accountability for the Tanning Industry ( UNIC Social Accountability) stands out. Then there is the SOCIAL AND ETHICALS referring to the protection of workers’ rights, health, and safety at work, involvement in social initiatives, industrial relations. This certification is applicable to every type of finished leather and for every destination of use, whose production is intended to be evaluated starting from raw leather from the beginning of the tanning production process to the finished leather, ready to be shipped for use in the manufacturing industry. ![]() This standard specifies the minimum product requirements and the minimum environmental requirements of the production process that must be met by leather in order to be called environmentally friendly. Many people think that Eco-Leather is the faux one, but this is not the case and the UNI 11427 standard says it clearly. ![]() This Regulation involves a process of collecting environmental data and communicating them to the outside world through the development of an Environmental Statement, validated by an accredited environmental verifier. (EC) 1221/2009Ī register for public and private organizations wishing to commit themselves to evaluate and improving their environmental performance. ISO 14001 is therefore not a product certification (like eco-labels), but a process certification.Įntry into the EMAS III Regulation: environmental declaration Reg. It does not certify a particular environmental performance, nor does it demonstrate a particularly low environmental impact, but rather it demonstrates that the certified organization has an adequate management system to keep the environmental impacts of its activities under control, and systematically seeks improvement in a consistent, effective and above all sustainable way. The best known is the certification that attests to the UNI EN ISO 14001:2015 standard that refers to Environmental Management Systems. Start with the ENVIRONMENTAL ones concerning air emissions, wastewater, sludge, waste, and resource consumption (electricity…). ![]() It’s true that here begins a sort of list, but believe me that I have given my best to be as complete as possible and at the same time as concise as possible.Īs I said before, the law is the first “certification”, and I will talk about it in one of the next articles, otherwise, this risks becoming the divine comedy. LET’S SEE WHAT ARE THE MOST COMMON RULES THAT ARE CERTIFIED However, it is not enough to have the LWG to say that we are sustainable. I would like to add, however, that a tannery cannot be defined sustainable, or with a sustainable mentality, if it does not have some of the certifications I am about to tell you about.Īs I said before, there are many elements to consider, for example, the laws to which the supplier is subject that, by defining minimum standards, make some certifications not indispensable, however, the latter certainly give an extra guarantee.Īt the same time, the Leather Working Group audit, which I will discuss below, is also gaining more and more ground in recent years and sets unique standards worldwide. It’s important to know which ones exist, the most common ones, and how they should be read. They are useful when you have no way to do an inspection, an audit yourself because you don’t have the time or the skills to do it. It is a scientific tool that helps the buyer to better understand the tannery in front of him. There are those who set the standard (UNI, ISO, CEN …) and there are those who certify, the third party, (ICEC, TUV …) next to these there is Leather Working Group (LWG). The direction that many tanneries are taking is more or less the same and in other words, an alignment is forming, and certifications are an example.Ĭertification means the act by which an independent third party declares with reasonable confidence that a particular product, process or service complies with specified requirements. ![]() It is true, the borders have not yet been drawn, but we can say that they are creating, almost automatically, a sort of increasingly shared guidelines that we could almost define unwritten rules. To assess the sustainability of leather we need to look at more things and not only at the product itself, but also at the supplier, its attitude towards the environment, the laws to which it is subject, and the certifications. It is known that it has a lower environmental impact but it is not written in some law, or somewhere, how much lower the environmental impact is or how it is reduced, and in this legal vacuum, many people give their interpretation. As I explained in a previous article, sustainable leather has no defined characteristics. ![]()
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