Costa Rica occupies only 0.03 percent of the Earth's surface, but concentrates about 6 percent of the world's biodiversity.
Costa Rica is a true paradise in which, in addition to its natural beauty, its enormous commitment to the environment stands out. Since the middle of the last century, it has embarked on the search for a sustainable development model that, among many other things, will help preserve the environment and achieve energy sovereignty through the implementation of norms, policies and instruments to produce greener energies.
Thanks to its privileged location and the diversity of its ecosystem; Costa Rica has successfully developed a renewable energy system that has positioned it as a benchmark above American, European and Asian countries. Since 2014, the country has achieved great objectives in this area. Its first great achievement was obtained in 2015 when the country managed to use electricity produced 100% with renewable sources for three months in a row, a record the country managed to break in 2018 when they managed to generate 98% of his energy through renewable sources and use electricity for 300 days. Only these sources accumulating 1.197 days of 100% clean production in four years. By 2019 Costa Rica has generated 99% of its energy through renewable sources, and in the very near future, Costa Rica expects to generate 100% of its energy through renewable sources.
For all these reasons, when we say that Cafeto Altamira is produced with Renewable Energy it’s because the energy used where our coffee is processed is taken from these sources so our coffee is processed with 99% Renewable Energy.
In addition to this, the Costa Rican entities have implemented other programs to give adequate use to the waste produced by coffee; using it as organic fertilizer, as well as a rational use of water. Since 1996, the beneficiary plants have implemented water re-circulation, waterless pulp transportation, and the primary treatment of the residual waters in settlers.
With the changes in the process of the beneficiary plants such as lower water consumption, and almost no contact of the coffee pulp with the liquid, it is guaranteed that wastewater is not a factor of river contamination.
There are inter-institutional agreements within the coffee sector and health entities and ministries that currently require that the maximum permitted standards of discharge of the liquid used in the benefits are met, so that all plants must have final water treatments and use the least amount possible in the whole process.