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Wastes become resources – Bioeconomy Day 2023
At the workshop The Bioeconomy Day 2023 organized by the University of Pisa, Professor Maurizia Seggiani presented the ReVOC4LIFE project to the community with a talk entitled “Bioeconomy projects: when wastes become resources”. Prof. Seggiani explained that the project ReVOC4LIFE proposed industrial wastes as sorbents to develop more sustainable and efficient abatement systems for the …
Meeting at the Cattaneo Institute
Dr. Pacchi of BCN Concerie, Eng. Cappello of the University of Pisa and Eng. Bernardi of Consorzio Aquarno introduced the topic of “sustainable research” to senior students of the Cattaneo Institute in San Miniato. At the institute, the speakers talked about the issues related to environmental impacts attributable to VOCs, how they are regulated …
What is sustainability for BCN Concerie?
Everything that allows the tannery to support others: people who live and work in the company for example, but also the rest of the world around us. BCN sells luxury leathers, so the ultimate aim is to keep the products offered with the same quality as always, without forgetting to invest time and resources in …
Sustainability
“Sustainability,” from the Latin “sustinere,” meaning “to hold from underneath,” to support something that needs support, outside help. In environmental sciences and in today’s common parlance, the term sustainability refers to the ability to maintain a balance between human activities and the natural environment, ensuring the study and use of new resources to date considered …
Revoc4life and air quality in the Covid 19 era
BCN Concerie, with the Consorzio Aquarno, is within a well-established circularity system: the District of Santa Croce sull’Arno. All the environmental impacts of the tannery are already mitigated through consolidated activities within the district system, except for VOC emissions into the atmosphere which are, however, subject to monitoring by the Tuscany Region. The VOC emissions …
Lineapelle Fair – September 2022
ReVOC4LIFE, the research project founded by EU which aim to reduce the environmental impact within Life Programme, was on stage at the exhibition Lineapelle 100 edition with the dissemination material inside the stand of BCN Concerie, one of the project partners, and with the talk “REVOC4LIFE, we clean the air with waste”. Lineapelle is …
Use of industrial waste and agri-food waste in a circular economy perspective
by Maurizia Seggiani and Patrizia Cinelli – Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering These are some research and development projects that have the implementation of processes as objectives at different scales innovative treatment and abatement of volatile organic solvents (VOCs) from emissions of leather painting booths, increasing removal efficiencies compared to those achieved with traditional …
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Several stages of KEU
KEU is a special non-hazardous waste deriving from waste water treatment plants (CER 190112). As stated by ARPAT (Regional Agency for Environmental Protection of Tuscany), it is material deriving from the heat treatment of the sewage sludge produced by the Aquarno purifier, into which the wastewater from the tanning companies of Santa Croce sull’Arno is …
What’s KEU?
The keu is a production residue deriving from the treatment of the sludge produced by the scraps of the leather tanning; it is characterized as a sintered granulate. Based on the Consolidated Law on environmental and the related ministerial regulation, followed by a specific explanatory circular, it can be classified as a by-product, that is …
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