Veolia Environmental Services Birmingham Limited is a project company, set up in 1993 as Tyseley Waste Disposal Limited, to manage the domestic waste arisings from the city of Birmingham. The company has a 25-year integrated waste management contract with Birmingham City Council, to operate as its strategic partner to deal with waste arisings, maximise recycling and produce Energy Recovery.
In 1996 Veolia ES Birmingham built a state-of-the-art Energy Recovery Facility in Tyseley, just to the east of Birmingham City Centre, which takes 350,000 tonnes of Birmingham’s rubbish each year and converts it into electricity. This energy production is enough to power 41,000 local homes.
In addition, we also operate all five of the Household Recycling Centres in the city which currently see about 100,000 tonnes of rubbish delivered per year. We are also responsible for operating two major waste transfer stations and handle the majority of materials collected via the Council-operated kerbside collection schemes, which are increasing across the city.
We aim to assist Birmingham City Council to continue to be one of the top-performing local authorities in terms of landfill avoidance; to help them to improve on their current recycling rate of 17% and to exceed their recycling target of 35% by the year 2011/12 by providing the necessary infrastructure and services to succeed.
Veolia ES Birmingham Limited is proud to have both ISO9000 and ISO14001 accreditation.
Veolia Environmental Services in the United Kingdom
Veolia Environmental Services has been present in the United Kingdom since 1990. As the leading UK waste management organisation with
2010 revenues above £1.2 billion, Veolia Environmental Services employs
around 12,000 employees across the spectrum of services in waste management and cleaning.
Veolia Environmental Services is renowned for its integrated waste management and environmental services to local communities and industry. We provide a range of services including refuse collection, recycling, waste treatment and street cleansing to over 21 million customers from circa 100 Local Authorities in the UK.
We operate a network of landfill sites, materials recovery facilities, transfer stations, civic amenity sites, Energy Recovery facilities and compost sites.
Key figures
- Operating since 1990.
- 2010 revenues above £1.2 billion.
- around 12,000 employees.
- Serves 65,000 commercial and industrial customers.
- circa 100 refuse collection, recycling, street cleansing and grounds maintenance contracts in partnership with circa 100 local authorities and waste disposal authorities.
- 12 landfills with a total void capacity of circa 45 million m3
- Total installed power generation of 220 MW.
- 7 Energy Recovery facilities with a total capacity of 1.5 million tonnes.
- 5 composting facilities with a total tonnage of green waste processed of 156,000 tonnes per annum.
- Minosus, the first facility of its kind in the UK, provides safe underground storage within a worked out area of a rock salt mine for the permanent disposal of a range of solid and granular hazardous wastes.
Veolia Environmental Services worldwide
Veolia Environmental Services is one of the world's leading providers of waste management and cleaning services.
Our activities include the collection, treatment and recycling of solid, liquid and hazardous waste in the municipal, industrial, marine and commercial markets. We serve more than 87 million people worldwide across 31 countries.
As part of our integrated approach to waste, we operate a number of technologically advanced solutions that are able to convert waste into a valuable energy resource that would otherwise result in the use of fossil fuels.
Key Figures
- 2010 sales: €9.3 billion.
- 813,000 industrial and tertiary sector customers.
- 87 million people served.
- 42 million of waste collected.
- 63 million of waste treated.
- 312,500 employees.
- Active in 77 countries.