The challenge: Recycling water to help with enhancing sustainability

摘要

According to a report by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), 70% of water used annually by humans is consumed by the global agriculture sector. With statistics like this, it is easy to see why food and beverage manufacturers are deploying water re-use methods that ultimately help to alleviate business risk, enhance sustainability practices and safeguard water quality standards by decreasing the plant's dependency on external water sources. One way of reducing Mogden Charges is to treat or re-use water before discharge. Water re-use is the practice of re-using suitably treated wastewater from one process in another industrial process and can significantly reduce the demand on potable sources of freshwater and the volume of water discharged to the sewer. The food processing industry is ideally suited to this process. As a result, re-use is a way of meeting discharge standards, reducing cost and as an aid to helping food processing businesses who have maximised their daily demand for water, particularly if the business is metered.