Veolia Environmental Services, via a dedicated subsidiary, Veolia Environmental Services Nottinghamshire Ltd; are helping Nottinghamshire County Council to manage waste created in the County. Over the life of the 26 year PFI waste management contract Veolia will help to increase recycling to 52% by 2020/21 and to significantly reduce the amount of waste going to landfill. To do this Veolia will:

• Provide waste education initiatives across the county
• Provide a materials recovery facility in Mansfield to handle around 85,000 tonnes per year of mixed dry recyclables from late 2008
• Provide a new composting facility in central Nottinghamshire and will utilise other existing composting sites to handle a total of 100,000 tonnes of green waste per year
• Establish a new HWRC to serve Worksop; this opened on 17th December 2007
• Manage some of the county’s Household Waste Recycling Centres establishing a unified approach and increasing standards at the sites to help maximise recycling levels achieved
• Create a network of new transfer stations to serve Newark and Worksop and will utilise existing sites at Giltbrook and South Nottingham to receive and handle waste and recyclables from district council collections
• Construct an 180,000 tonne/year energy recovery facility in the Mansfield/Ashfield area to convert residual waste into power. It is hoped that this will be operational from 2011, when the direct delivery of municipal waste to landfill will cease. The 15MW of energy recovered would be the equivalent of providing power to 15,000 homes
• Use existing planned, constructed and licensed landfill sites to take residual waste.