Possibility of reduction and re-using the wastes of Turkish leather industry that cause environmental pollution
Kitapta bölümler > Diğer · 1993
Yazarlar: Ö. Sari, A.N. Yapici
Production of hides, skins, wool and hair, Diğer, Uluslararası, 1993, ss 74-76, ,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004684584_013
Özet
From traditional handicrafts in twenty years the Turkish leather manufacturing has become a major industry, meanwhile rapid flow of population from rural areas to towns resulted in unorganized urbanization. Tanneries once located in provincial zones of towns now engulfed in rapid expansion and become part of city center areas where tanneries lack proper infrastructures. Consequently treatment plants weren’t installed by the firms. And now suddenly environmental hazards of leather industry come to attention. Institutions to supply this industry with skilled resources to increase the standards of knowledge were slow in forming. Insufficient establishments while moving upward for space in progress made it difficult, sometimes impossible, to treat and processes liquid and solid wastes. Thus, establishments who brought new technology weren’t able to make complete use of them. Considering the state of the Turkish tanneries today, to achieve desired decrease in solid and liquid wastes, various precautions can be effective. Education and training craftsmen must be the prime concern. Without skilled craftsmen no matter how new the technology is decreasing the waste to prevent pollution will not be possible. Also the chemical and water quantity in application for sorting, soaking, dehairing, liming etc. If it can be applied in specific amounts it will help to minimize the liquid and solid wastes. Tanneries of Türkiye make no effort to recycle the waste. Waste water studies for agricultural use aren’t made. Also no research is made for using the solid wastes.