Coca Cola goes green

Coca Cola goes green

SURABAYA: The local bottling company for Coca Cola has
inaugurated its new Rp 1 billion ($476,000) waste water treatment
plant in compliance with the East Java environmental regulations.

The new plant ensures that waste water discharged by the
Tirtalina bottling plant is so clean that fish can live in it, PT
Coca Cola Indonesia announced.

Just to prove its point, a landscaped fish pond has been built
as a final test for the treated water. The inhabitants not only
survived, they also grow, the statement said.

East Java Governor Basofi Sudirman witnessed the opening
yesterday.

The new facility has stabilized the plant's effluent. Its
biological oxygen demand has been reduced to 50 ppm from 600 and
its chemical oxygen demand to 100 ppm from 1,000. These levels
are lower than the maximum prescribed by the 1987 governor's
decree. (emb)