Laundry Water Recovery System Reduces Freshwater Use By Over 50 Percent

In Mexico City, few residents have tap water or washing machines and most visit laundromats to clean their clothes. To keep up with demand, most of the city’s laundromats take delivery of fresh water three or four times per day at great expense to facility owners. Virtually none of this water is reused or recycled. This not only creates a financial burden for laundry operators, it also adds significantly to one of Mexico City’s most pressing environmental problems: a massive water shortage.

Read the full case study to learn how a water-savings pilot program that used PPG’s exclusive polymeric filtration membrane led to freshwater use at the facility being reduced by over 50 percent, and helped cost savings for the operator.