The Municipal Slaughterhouse of Guayaquil, located in the centre of the city, is surrounded by houses and business sectors.
The Slaughterhouse processes approximately 1,000 animals per day, producing large loads of organic waste and bad odours.
Administration officials, in search of a solution to eliminating odours and accumulation of animal dropping, selected EM Technology after competitive bidding.
The Slaughterhouse scale is of 1,180ha and processes approximately 450 cows and 480 pigs per day. They has approximately 100 staff.
EM Technology was introduced on March of 2017.
They use straight Activated EM・1 (AEM) spraying every working day into: 16 corrals for cows, 3 corrals for pigs, waste pit, floors and surrounding open spaces.Furthermore, AEM is also poured directly into the waste septic tank and drains every day in operations.
