Positive results of a four-year project by UTZ Certified have proven it’s possible to generate energy by treating discharges from coffee mills.
Funded by Hivos and the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Energy from Coffee Wastewater project aimed at preventing polluted water from coffee production to be released untreated into ecosystems while, at the same time, generating energy from waste. The project started in 2010 with the goal of addressing environmental and health problems caused by the wastewater produced in the coffee industry.