Textile mills can reduce their consumtion by up to 90 percent using the EColoRO
technique, which consists of
electrocoagulation followed by membrane filtration, to treat their wastewater and then reuse it.
In June 2015 a European consortium led by the Dutch Company EColoRO BV in Almere and the Institute for Sustainable Process Technology (ISPT) in Amersfoort, the
Netherlands commenced a 3.5-year project to
demonstrate the new technology on site at full industrial scale, first at a textile mill in Belgium and later at a textile mill in Italy.