These objectives are achieved through technical assistance to industry and urban institutions, development and delivery of training and outreach programs, and operation of an information clearinghouse. During assessment, a team comprised of U.S. and in-country experts in both pollution prevention and the facility's industrial processes gathers more detailed information on the sources of pollution, and identifies and analyzes opportunities for reducing this pollution. Summary This assessment evaluated a sheep hide tannery. EP3 staff, and local consultants. All five options identified can be quickly and easily implemented by the plant's staff.
None require complicated, expensive, or new technologies.
Four of the options are low-cost with payback periods ranging from five months to two years. If implemented, these pollution prevention changes will reduce the use of toxic raw materials, reduce the amount of waste water generated, reduce the chemicals needed to treat waste water, and significantly reduce the amount of chromium used in the facility and discharged to the waste water. This facility is a tannery producing leather from sheep and goat hides. The facility tans approximately 400 sheep hides per day, for a total of 120,000 hides per year. Between 90 and 95 percent of the annual production are sheep hides tanned for clothing, while the rest are goat hides tanned for shoes.