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How a Textile Mill Cut Water Usage by 70 Percent
Lucas and Luna explore how a denim mill in Bangladesh slashed water consumption by 70% — saving 1.5 billion liters per year — by re-engineering its dyeing process and adopting closed-loop recycling. They walk through the specific operations changes: switching to foam dyeing, installing reverse-osmosis filtration, and retraining 200 operators. The episode zooms in on one metric — liters per pair of jeans — and shows how a 350-liter baseline dropped to 105 liters in 18 months. Listeners learn why water efficiency isn't just an environmental story: it cut the mill's energy bill by 12%…
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