After 23 years of activity, the Danone Djurdjura company created in 2001 has finally decided to reduce its ecological impact in Algeria and is focusing on the treatment of its wastewater. It is for this reason that Danone Djurdjura, which is the merger between the French agri-food giant Danone and the Algerian dairy Djurdjura, has equipped itself with a treatment plant. The plant was inaugurated on June 5 on the sidelines of the celebration of World Environment Day 2024, during which all leaders and companies were called upon to restore land, desertification, and resistance to drought.
Front view of the new Danone Djurdjura wastewater treatment plant in Algeria© Danone Djurdjura
The new facility located between the industrial zones of Taharacht and Akbou, in the Wilaya of Béjaia in Algeria, treats effluents coming from the joint venture’s dairy product manufacturing industrial complex. The Danone wastewater treatment plant has a total capacity of 1,200 m3 per day, expandable to 2,000 m3.
Preserve human lives and aquatic biodiversity
The treated water is returned to nature. In addition to reducing pollution of aquatic environments, this approach will help preserve the health of populations whose livelihoods come from these environments.
“ This initiative demonstrates our strategic vision and our concrete action for a more sustainable future and adds to a set of measures to reduce the ecological footprint of the company’s activities,” says Danone Djurdjura.
Par ailleurs, la multinationale, réputée pour sa marque de produits laitiers « Blédina », envisage dans sa démarche écoresponsable en Algérie et dans toute l’Afrique, la réduction de 30 % des émissions de méthane issues de sa production notamment laitière, d’ici à 2030, sachant que le secteur de l’agropastoral génère 8% des émissions mondiales de méthane chaque année.
