Yes, leather can be recycled. Leather scraps can be gathered from leather items and tanneries and used to create new leather items. Although, many recycling companies are reluctant to recycle leather. This is due to the difficulty in using old leather for new products.

Is leather a recycling?

Leather can be recycled by a few different processes and it be turned into recycled leather or leatherboard. Recycled leather is usually made from Wet Blue scraps and hides, whilst leatherboard can be made from finished leather scraps.

Is leather easy to recycle?

Although the recycling of materials creates a circular economy and therefore increases sustainability, there are potential challenges to recycling leather. Theoretically, offcuts of leather created within the leather manufacturing process are more easily recycled than final products at the end of their life.