Goal 14.1 : By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution.
AQC ACTION
As highlighted in SDG 6, tanneries require water to carry out the tanning process. AQC relies on the expertise and certification of the Leather Working Group (LWG), which verifies water management and the effective treatment of effluents by leather suppliers. In addition, AQC encourages its members to source leathers exclusively from alligator farms certified by ICFA or SRCP, whose scope includes water management.
Bracelet manufacturers, for their part, do not use significant quantities of water in their production processes. Nevertheless, water usage has been included as a scope in our Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), given its significant use at level 1 of our supply chain: tanneries.
