Veolia
Environmental Services in Birmingham
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 from waste.
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 2007 pro-forma revenues above £1.2 billion,
Veolia Environmental Services employs almost 12,500 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 over 16 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
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Operating
since 1990 |
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2007 pro-forma revenues above £1.2 billion |
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12,500
employees |
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Serves 73,000
commercial and industrial customers |
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Circa 180
refuse collection, recycling, street cleansing and grounds maintenance contracts in partnership
with over 80 local authorities and waste disposal
authorities |
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13 landfills
with a total void capacity of circa 47 million m3
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Total installed power generation of 233 Mw
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6 energy
recovery facilities with a total capacity
of 1.4 million tonnes |
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5 composting
facilities with a total tonnage of green waste
processed of 200,000 tonnes per annum |
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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 45 million people worldwide
across 35 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
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2007 sales : €9.2 billion (£6.8 billion)
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553,000 industrial and tertiary sector
customers
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45 million people served
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35 million tonnes of waste collected
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58 million tonnes of waste treated
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80,700 employees
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Active in 35 countries
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