The main goal of this article was to establish water conservation strategies in a corrugated packaging plant. The rational use and reuse of water were conservation tools chosen to improve the environmental performance of this plant. After these conservative interventions, the plant average water consumption was reduced at 45%, and the specific consumption decreased from 213.11 to 89.41mL of water per square meters of PO. As final result, besides water consumption reduction, the wastewater streams began to comply with the environmental legislation.
water conservation; rational use; water reuse; industry; corrugated paperboard
