date:Aug 29, 2014
Farmers in Central America have generated clean energy from coffee wastewater, as part of Energy from Coffee Wastewater project undertaken by UTZ Certified.
UTZ Certified's project is aimed at generating energy, protecting water resources and mitigating the amount of greenhouse-gas emissions by treating discharges from coffee mills into the atmosphere.
As part of the project, coffee wastewater treatment and solid-waste treatment systems were installed in eight coffee farms in Nicaragua, 10 in