Day 9 - Sugarcane Factory

9th Day in Brazil---Renuka Plant in Sao Pedro do Ivai

   Today we visited Renuka Plant which is a sugar and ethanol plant. Renuka is one of the largest sugar company in Brazil. Their products are sent to companies which is familiar to us like coca-cola. As a sugar factory, they tried their best to reduce the pollution. Perfect water recycle system.The residual from sugarcane are burned as fuel. Low quality sugarcane are used to produce ethanol. You can not find any kind of high pollution area in this factory. They did a good job on maintain the sustainability. What surprised me is their managing system, collecting centers are distributed in this province, and managed by individual farmers or company. In that way, the company minimize the cost. It's a difficult thing to manage these centers, while you may find trucks from each center are following the same rules made by Renuka. That's a kind of succeed.I was trying to recommend them to use microbial fuel cells. Maybe I have found a customer for our project.