Higg Product Tools Higg MSI Kangaroo hide, Australia

Kangaroo hide, Australia

2.0

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Description

Kangaroo hides for kangaroo leather. Kangaroos are commercially harvested from the wild, therefore no impacts are assigned from the on-farm/animal husbandry phase. Only processing and transporation impacts are included.

Impacts

Impact area MSI Score
Global Warming 0.7
Eutrophication 0.4
Water Scarcity 0.2
Abiotic Resource Depletion, Fossil Fuels 0.6
Chemistry
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Modeling Notes

This process accounts for 5 kgs of kangaroo hides, having a yield of 1 kg tanned hide. Only processing and transporation impacts are included. Includes 10% loss of raw material to account for yield losses. Also includes 1000km inbound shipping distance to account for shipment of raw materials.

Meta information

  • Primary Source: Estimated from literature
  • Last Publication or Review date: 2015
  • Geography: Australia
  • Data Generator: Cashion East, Pivot Analytics; east@pointpivot.com

Applicable Materials

Material Impact
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Kangaroo leather
30
Leather

Data quality

Data Quality Value Description
Precision Fair 20% to 30% 3
Time Representativeness Excellent Data are not older than 4 years with respect to the release date or latest review date 1
Geographical Representativeness Good The processes included in the dataset are well representative for the geography stated in the title and metadata 2
Technological Representativeness Fair The technologies modeled are representative of the average technology used for similar processes 3
Average 2.25