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Consists on reusing all the water in our industrial processes to irrigate the 112 hectares of woods and crops surrounding our facilities. Water is treated in order to keep our environmental impact to a minimum. Our land is also grazed by herds of sheep and cows, which help clear our undergrowth and thus reduce the risk of fire.
Consists on reusing all the water in our industrial processes to irrigate the 112 hectares of woods and crops surrounding our facilities. Water is treated in order to keep our environmental impact to a minimum. Our land is also grazed by herds of sheep and cows, which help clear our undergrowth and thus reduce the risk of fire.
We want a sustainable future, which is why - for many years - we have been using our waters responsibly, with a positive impact on our natural environment.
SLUDGE WATER REUSE
Grup d'Avinyó has been selected to participate in the REAQUA project to develop a wastewater treatment and reuse project. This process is based on treating and purifying the company's wastewater, allowing it to be reused in certain processes where the water quality requirements are lower, such as, for example, the cleaning of animal transport trucks or warehouses reception of them.
Water parameters and water reuse will be supervised and authorised by the corresponding ministries of the Government of Catalonia during the course of the project, thus guaranteeing the company’s standards of hygiene and food security.
With this project, the aim is to reduce the company’s water footprint, which has become even more important given current drought conditions and climate change forecasts.
On this year, we have modified the treatment plant of our slaughterhouse to generate a much cleaner and more environmentally friendly effluent, an improvement in the quality of the water that will allow us to continue studying its possible reuse.
Matadero Frigorífico Avinyó employed DepurWater to carry out monthly checks on its waste water discharge and ensure its treatment was working effectively.
We designed and implemented our first Irrigation Plan to regulate irrigation and fertilisation and set out maximum irrigation times for each area of forest and crops. In 2009 we launched a groundwater analysis project with the University of Vic to ensure that our irrigation and fertilisation activity had no detrimental effect on water quality.
We installed a 25,000 m³ accumulation pond at the end of our green waste water treatment process, thus exposing the waste water to natural treatment for longer so that we can then reuse it for irrigation and fertilisation.
We expanded and improved our waste water treatment plant at Matadero Frigorífico Avinyó. We adapted the quality of its discharge and refitted the plant to ensure its long-term feasibility.
We installed a heat-recovery system at our subproducts plant to reuse the heat generated by digestion processes in order to heat water and cut down on our gas consumption.
We were pioneers in reusing treated waste water to irrigate and fertilise the 148 hectares of woods and fields around our premises, under the careful supervision of the Catalan Water Agency and the Catalan Government.
