Young people visited Scottish Leather Group to find out how the biggest leather maker in the United Kingdom has found ways to consider people and the planet within their business operations.
Students who attend The Skills Academy have a growing interest in the world around them. Now, more than ever, young people contemplate the consequences of climate change and want to know how to help stop global warming.
Scottish Leather Group has meticulously worked towards lowering their carbon emissions to create the lowest carbon intensity leather in the world and become an example to other industry leaders across every sector to factor in the environment. A visit to see their business processes in action was an ideal field trip for environmentally-driven students.
Young people saw for themselves how a career in design, manufacturing and engineering has the power to find sustainable solutions that can help protect the environment and benefit future generations.


