Renewable Energy
The factories we use in Tiripur, India recover nearly 92% of the salt (4600 kgs per day) and 95% of the water (760,000 litres per day) used. This is thanks to a clever little technology called Zero Liquid Effluent Discharge. The fancy ‘Multi Effect Evaporator & Crystallizer’ allows the recovery and re-use of most of the salt and water used. The factories also have primary, secondary and tertiary effluent treatment plants with a ‘Reverse Osmosis System’ for recycling water.
If this sounds confusing, that’s because it is. But, in short, it′s a very good thing!
People in this region of India rely heavily on agriculture, particularly the cultivation of cotton, but years of drought, pesticide pollution and intensive-production are drying up the ground, the yields and the jobs. Dams are being constructed but the water is being diverted to the more affluent coastal areas, leaving poor people fighting to make a living.
The factories we use have set up the Durai Charitable Trust which supplies free water to the poorest people in the region, often living in remote areas that have no access to water from the municipality.
Our factories use a clever technology called ’Zero Liquid Effluent Discharge‘