Goal 6.3 : By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally.
Goal 6.4 : By 2030, substantially increase water-use efficiency across all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of freshwater to address water scarcity and substantially reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity.
AQC ACTION
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.
