Tanning industry generates large quantities of solid wastes during leather processing and subsequently during effluent treatment. From this point of view, in this study assessment on solid waste management practices and physicochemical characterization of the solid wastes generated from tannery were made so that to propose appropriate tannery solid waste management options. The assessment made showed that the types of tannery solid wastes are de-dusted salt, raw skin trimmings, hair, fleshings, splitting waste, pickle trimmings, chrome shaving, crust trimmings, finished leather trimmings and...