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However, the effects of leather size have never been addressed in a systematic way. The reasons to study this parameter are twofold: it affects the physicochemical properties and processing conditions of the composites, and leather grinding is a costly and time-consuming process. In this work, leather waste (LW) with particle sizes ranging from \u22640.5 mm to \u22643 mm was incorporated in styrene\u2013butadiene rubber (SBR) in contents of up to 50 phr. It was concluded that the composites with finer leather sizes exhibited a more uniform particles dispersion, and tensile strength was not significantly affected by the presence of LW, especially for the finer granulometries. However, there is a remarkable increase in the stiffness with the increase in leather content, particularly with the finer particles. The abrasion increased with the incorporation of leather across all particle sizes, especially for the \u22640.5 mm leather particles. 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