Veolia Environmental Services

A leading player on the sustainable development scene

Veolia Environmental Services is one of the 4 divisions that make up Veolia Environment, the world’s leading environmental services firm. Veolia Environmental Services’ 92,560 employees serve 749,000 clients in 42 countries, and in 2007 the company generated a turnover of 9.2 billion Euros.

Unique expertise that benefits the environment

Liquid or solid, non-hazardous or hazardous (excluding nuclear)… Veolia Environmental Services is the only global player to handle waste of every kind at every stage in its life cycle. We provide a fully-comprehensive waste management service, intervening at all stages: cleaning, maintenance and remediation, sorting, treatment, recovery, etc.

Global and tailor-made solutions

Companies, manufacturers and municipalities: we provide solutions that are adapted to suit each specific situation and that respect human beings and the environment.

• Waste management and logistics services: waste collection, pipe systems maintenance, cleaning of public areas, offices and factories, maintenance of equipment, soil remediation and waste management at industrial sites.
• Basic and complex waste treatment: sorting and recycling waste by re-introducing it into an industrial process, composting, landfilling and incineration, energy recovery (production of electricity and heat).

VES handles 929 treatment units :

• 35 hazardous waste recycling plants
• 164 landfilling(non-haz.& haz. waste)
• 114 composting centers
• 132 composting units of hazardous waste
• 100 Waste-to Energy plants (non-haz.& haz. waste)
• 61 physical-chemical treatment centers for haz.waste
• 15 soil remediation facilities
• 308 materials recovery facilities

In 2008 VES collected 41915 KT of waste, including dont
19506 KT of industrial waste,
19192 KT of municipal waste,
1199 KT of non hazardous liquid waste and
1916 KT of hazardous waste

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