Sustainability Webinars

EU Deforestation Regulation and its implications for the footwear and leather industries

From 30th December 2024, companies placing goods onto the European market will have to comply with the new EUDR regulation. The regulation covers seven commodities (cattle, cocoa, palm oil, rubber, soya and wood) as well as many products derived from those commodities including leather, natural rubber products, and pulp & paper. In this webinar, SATRA is joined by Kerry Senior, director of Leather UK, who discusses the details of the legislation in more detail, what its impact is likely to be, what companies need to do to ensure they are compliant, and also consider likely future developments to the legislation.

What is carbon?

We hear about carbon all the time in relation to climate change. This webinar will explain what carbon actually is, how it affects our climate, why it's important to identify the origin of carbon in materials and testing that can be carried out to identify its origin.

Recycling technology for footwear

We are joined by speakers from ReNew Shoe Ltd and Fast Feet Grinded who will explain the process of separating shoes into their constituent parts for recycling or repurposing.

End-of-life options for footwear and other goods

Finding responsible and sustainable solutions to recycle or dispose of items at the end of their useful lives is a significant challenge being faced by many organisations across many sectors. In this webinar SATRA’s sustainability manager Nicola Pichel-Juan was joined by Karl Flowers, technical director from Authenticae to discuss the challenges of finding sustainable end-of-life solutions for different types of products and materials, what options are currently available, and what the considerations are for developing products with a particular end-of-life scenario in mind. The webinar also covers testing requirements to understand the compostability/biodegradability properties of a material.

Introduction to product carbon footprint and lifecycle assessment

SATRA's sustainability manager, Nicola Pichel-Juan, explains why it is important for organisations to understand the environmental impacts of their products. She introduces lifecycle assessment (LCA) methodology and explains the type of data that would be needed in order to calculate the impacts of a given product.

Key challenges typically encountered in the process are discussed as well as commonly used methodologies.

Sustainability workshop on organisational carbon footprint

SATRA's sustainability manager, Nicola Pichel-Juan, discusses why it is important for organisations to understand their carbon emissions and how the emissions can be quantified – while sharing SATRA's journey so far to calculate our own organisational carbon footprint.

Nicola is joined by Vanessa Macalliver from xtonnes, an organisation that provides a carbon management software platform that supports organisations to measure their impacts and set reduction targets.

Sustainability Workshop on NFW’s Journey Towards Bio-neutral Materials Creation

During this webinar Alan Lugo, Product Strategy Manager at Natural Fiber Welding, talks about the journey to create a new generation of high-performance plant-based materials that are designed for the circular economy and how collaboration is a key factor in enabling them to achieve their goals.

Sustainability Workshop on EMMA’s Progress Towards Sustainable and Circular Production

Iris van Wanrooij – Programme Manager, Corporate Social Responsibility of EMMA Safety Footwear – joins us again in our Sustainability Workshop to review some of the key actions that they have undertaken and update us on their progress and future plans.

Sustainability Workshop on Generating Energy from Waste Materials

In this workshop guest presenter, Dr Warren Bowden, Innovation and Sustainability Director of The Scottish Leather Group Ltd (SLG), will highlight their journey towards achieving a sustainable manufacturing cycle. He will explain how SLG reduced their environmental impact and carbon footprint by avoiding landfill while producing syngas and oil. Dr Bowden will also discuss SLG’s reduced water footprint and their positive impact on local communities and the workplace.

Sustainability Workshop on the Sustainable Leather Foundation

The Sustainable Leather Foundation (SLF) is an organisation that was formed in early 2020 with the mission of supporting the global leather industry to learn, to improve and to protect for future generations, through the ‘People, Planet, Profit’ principle. Founder and Managing Director, Deborah Taylor, will join SATRA’s sustainability workshop to explain more about the work of SLF and how industry stakeholders can participate.