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Footwear Carbon Footprint (LIFE CO2SHOE)
Date du début: 1 oct. 2013, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2017,
Background
In recent years, there has been growing awareness and concern about environmental issues, particularly those related to climate change. More and more industrial and economic sectors are monitoring the amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions they are releasing into the atmosphere â notably carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N ...
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RECOVERY OF TANNERY WASTES FOR FUNCTIONAL MICROENCAPSULATED PRODUCTS (LIFE MICROTAN)
Date du début: 1 nov. 2013, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2016,
Background
The tanning industry treats animal skins to produce durable leather products. It generates large volumes of by-products and waste materials, which can cause significant negative environmental impacts. The advancement of European policy and legislation protecting the environment has encouraged the exploration of ways to transform tannery waste m ...
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Promotion of best available techniques in the European footwear and tanning sectors (LIFE SHOEBAT)
Date du début: 1 oct. 2013, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2016,
Background
In recent years, growing awareness of the unsustainable use of natural resources, together with a greater environmental awareness generally, has led many companies to initiate efforts to improve their environmental performance and develop more sustainable production processes.
The tanning and footwear production sectors play an important role ...
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Building a biological knowledge-base on fish lifecycles for competitive, sustainable European aquaculture (LIFECYCLE)
Date du début: 1 févr. 2009, Date de fin: 31 juil. 2013,
LIFECYCLE (14 partners, 9 countries) will deliver a knowledge-base to improve competitiveness and sustainability of European aquaculture, through a combination of question-problem driven approaches. The focus will be on early developmental events, growth and environmental adaptation throughout the lifecyle, and on the physiology and immunology of key life-stage transitions, such as metamorphosis, ...
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Environmentally friendly oxazolidine-tanned leather (OXATAN)
Date du début: 1 janv. 2010, Date de fin: 30 juin 2012,
Background
Chrome tannage is the most commonly used technology for the production of tanned leathers, used in the case of more than 90% of leathers tanned worldwide. The process of chrome tannage uses trivalent chromium, a substance that under specific conditions could oxidise to hexavalent chromium. Hexavalent chromium, however, is harmful to the environ ...
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Promotion of Environmental Legislation among European Footwear Industries (SHOELAW)
Date du début: 1 janv. 2010, Date de fin: 30 juin 2012,
Background
Many small- and medium-size companies in Europe operate within a business culture that does not consider the environment as part of a medium- and long-term development strategy. Incorporating environmental factors into these industries invariably arises as a result of pressure from relevant authorities. Environmental legislation, however, is no ...
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Promotion of the european eco-label for footwear (ECOFOOT)
Date du début: 1 oct. 2002, Date de fin: 31 mars 2005,
Background
Eco-labelling is a means of informing consumers about which products are environmentally friendly. Criteria or requirements that must be fulfilled to obtain the eco-label have a clear and concrete objective: to limit the levels of toxic residues and of volatile organic compound emissions, as well as the production of more durable products.
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