Poultry’s water usage footprint is smaller than that for any other mass-consumed meat. Generally, water consumption in a processing plant ranges from 12 to 18 liters per bird. Much, however, depends on capacity, infrastructure and the technology used. By adopting the very latest Marel water-saving techniques including the re-use, where possible, of treated wastewater, a suitably equipped high-speed plant can get this figure as low as 7 liters per bird.
Marel continues to look for ways of reducing water use still further, part of the company’s sincere commitment to improving the long-term sustainability of poultry processing.
Below we list five possibilities, given in process order.