Who we are

Veolia Environmental Services has activities in over half of London’s boroughs and uses its many years of experience and expertise working in large conurbations and metropolises to deliver a first class service to everyone it serves in Europe’s largest city.

From household and business waste management and recycling services, to street cleansing, parks and open spaces, landscaping and maintenance and modern waste treatment methods including Energy Recovery through incineration, Veolia Environmental Services provides a full and comprehensive range of services to benefit residents and visitors alike.

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 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