Abstract: The continuously growing resource utilization and the associated environmental challenges have gained enormous attention from both society and academia. Clean production, recycling, atomic economy, as well as green and low-carbon mode are pervasive. Though the maximization of resource utilization and effective transformation can be achieved through unremitting efforts, the elimination of trace waste and discharge remains a difficult task. In particular, various types of dyes and heavy metal ions in wastewater have been always hindering the deeper-level environmental clean-up. To this end, an overview of the current tannery wastewater pollution and management situation is presented. This review introduces the current of resource utilization of tannery waste and the development prospect of biomass adsorbent, and finally gives an outlook on the current development of collagen polypeptide derived from leather solid waste and polysaccharide composite adsorbents.