Waste Management

Veolia specializes in the management of both liquid and solid hazardous and non-hazardous waste. Its expertise spans the entire waste lifecycle, from collection to recycling, in order to recover end products from the industry as materials and energy
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Industrial Clients

MATERIAL RECOVERY

The recovery of materials helps conserve primary natural resources by turning waste into replacement energy products. By developing recovery solutions that provide its customers with quality secondary raw materials, Veolia has become the benchmark producer of renewable resources.

WASTE ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT (WEEE)

Veolia’s patented process uses several different technologies to identify and extract all plastic materials from WEEE (waste electrical and electronic equipment) before grinding them into 10-millimeter pieces. Veolia’s industrial solutions combine flexibility and diversity while ensuring exemplary treatment traceability and achieving high recovery rates.

PLASTICS

The industrialized sorting process developed by Veolia identifies, separates and qualifies the various types of plastics.

In this way, Veolia is able to guarantee recycled plastic material purity rates that exceed 99%. As a result, manufacturers are able to install closed-loop recycling that significantly reduces their raw material supply costs.

MATERIAL AND LIQUID EFFLUENT RECYCLING

Veolia offers recycling solutions for metallic sludge from the automotive industry that combine the recovery of the metallic fractions and regeneration of the high-value machining oils.

In this same industry, Veolia has attained such high-quality results in the field of solvent regeneration that it can provide its customers with a comprehensive service: it supplies the products used in the paint shops, collects used solvents, and regenerates them for reuse.

COMPOST

In order to improve the quality of organic soil conditioners, Veolia applies the Aerocontrol process at the composting facilities it operates. This process speeds up compost maturation while ensuring a homogeneous fermentation process.

DECOMMISSIONING

The process of decommissioning industrial facilities and mobile objects (aircraft, ships, trains and oil platforms) at the end of their working life poses economic, health and environmental challenges that require two complementary forms of expertise: the ability to decommission and deconstruct a site or object for easier management, and the ability to recycle the resulting waste and clean up ground pollution

Municipal Clients

Veolia is developing innovative solutions in order to make municipal waste management more efficient by limiting environmental impact and encouraging sorting at the source to increase recycling rates.

Veolia offers municipalities solutions regarding:

  • LOGISTICS AND REVERSE LOGISTICS

Collection, the first stage in waste management, is increasingly becoming a question of logistics.

  • URBAN CLEANING SERVICES

They play an important role in maintaining the attractiveness of cities.

  • SEPARATING WASTE FLOWS 

Veolia has developed innovative technical solutions to make it easier to identify, separate and prepare the materials in waste, and increase recycling and recovery rates, such as high-performance sorting, remote-controlled sorting and  specialized sorting: plastics, WEEE and metals.

  • MATERIALS RECOVERY

It helps conserve primary natural resources by turning waste into replacement energy products. By developing recovery solutions that provide its customers with certified secondary raw materials, Veolia has become the benchmark producer of renewable resources.

  • WASTE-TO-ENERGY

Veolia supports the growing demand for renewable energy and, wherever possible, develops solutions to supply green energy to its customers through  heat, biogas and RDF recovery.