Sustainability
Sustainability is an important matter to all of UCY Mexico Group’s business units. For each of the next fields, we present some links that we consider important as well as some applications that relate to the concept and give aggregate value to our ideas.
Wastewater to Energy
Treated Water Counter – This counter shows how much liters of water have been treated to this date. Click here to take a look.
UN Water – an organism that reinforces the coordination and coherence between the United Nation entities that relate to sweet water and its cleaning, as well as the superficial and underground water resources, the relation between sweet and sea water and catastrophes related to water.
http://www.unwater.org/discover_es.html
REDOX Water Technology – it’s a worldwide water and wastewater treatment systems provider with over 25 years of experience.
http://www.redox-wt.nl/hst/r21d06o/col.nsf/Main/Water%20Technology~Home%5EZZ?open&lang=ZZ
UCY Waste-Water to Energy – a company who is a specialist in high technologies to generate energy in the water purification processes.
http://www.ucy-wwte.nl/hst/r21d06o/col.nsf/Main/Waste%20Water~Home%5EEN?open&lang=EN#
SEMARNAT – Environment and Natural Resources Bureau in Mexico.
http://www.semarnat.gob.mx/Pages/Inicio.aspx
Ecological Footprint Calculator including housing, transportation and diet :
http://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx
Water consumption calculator:
Laboratories
NOM – 001 – ECOL -1996: Mexican Official Norm that establishes the maximum levels of contaminants in wastewater to national ground.
http://biblioteca.semarnat.gob.mx/janium/Documentos/Ciga/agenda/DOFsr/DO2776.pdf
NOM – 002 – ECOL – 1996: Mexican Official Norm that establishes the maximum levels of contaminants in wastewater to urban and municipal sewage systems.
http://biblioteca.semarnat.gob.mx/janium/Documentos/Ciga/agenda/DOFsr/ECOL002.pdf
NOM – 003 – ECOL – 1997: Mexican Official Norm that establishes the maximum levels of contaminants in treated wastewater that is reused in public services.
http://biblioteca.semarnat.gob.mx/janium/Documentos/Ciga/agenda/PPD02/DO114.pdf
Biodigesters
An article about a successful case of how biodigesters help the environment- http://suscon.org/highlights/newFaceOfGreen.php
An example about how Biogas can be used – http://climatetechwiki.org/technology/biogas-cook
Consulting and Projects
The importance of sustainability in a process – http://www.altonivel.com.mx/5427-procesos-empresariales-sustentables.html
Sustainability criteria – http://www.semarnat.gob.mx/temas/pycs/Paginas/criterios.aspx
Transportation and Logistics
Ruta punto a punto – a SCYT site dedicated to obtain highway routes from anywhere in Mexico.
http://aplicaciones4.sct.gob.mx/sibuac_internet/ControllerUI?action=cmdEscogeRuta
Green logistics – a concept that seeks to create a whole supply chain that is sustainable, economically, socially and environmentally.-
