A creative way of recycling our sheepskin scraps!

As many of you might know, here at Celtic Sheepskin we like to fly the flag as an eco-friendly company and we do our best to carry this throughout all areas of our business. While I’m not going to go into too much depth about how we do this (although if you are interested, click here to be directed to the relevant section on our website), I thought today you might like to see one of the fun ways that we have made use of our sheepskin scraps.

Of course, we do our absolute best to use as much of every sheepskin as possible during the process to make a pair of boots or slippers - it’s amazing how many ways you can use a sheepskin! Even so, once we have squeezed as much use out of a skin as we can, there are often little scraps left over so we are always searching for innovative ways to recycle them. Last week Lou – our Warehouse Supervisor – came up with a brilliant idea: Rather than disposing of the sheepskin leftovers, she suggested that it would be a great opportunity for local school art departments to offer students the chance to work with sheepskin to make their creations.

Sheepskin scraps come in all sorts of shapes and sizes so they are perfect for collages and artistic creations. So Lou and Emma - who works in her team – spent a morning travelling around Newquay armed with boxes of sheepskin scraps to deliver to local nurseries and schools in the area. Judging by the photos they took, they seemed to be very well received! The staff and children kindly posed for some photographs for us so thank you very much to them all…

I can’t wait to see what the children (and their teachers!) will make out of the scraps. Hopefully they will let us know when their creations are ready for viewing so we can take some photos to post on the blog. Perhaps they will come up with something like this one which Lou and Emma made and are proudly displayed in the photo below...

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