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Veolia ES West Berkshire Limited
In March 2008 Veolia Environmental Services were
awarded a 25 year contract with West Berkshire Council
and is targeting a long-term 49% recycling rate
as part of a major boost to recycling in the area.
Veolia haveintroduced kerbside collections of plastic
bottles, cardboard and green waste, which augment
the previous collections of paper, card, cans and
textiles, while investing over £27 million in waste
infrastructure.
The infrastructure will include an Integrated Waste Management Facility incorporating a recycling and composting facility with a municipal depot and visitor centre, along with mini recycling centres and Household Waste Recycling Centres. Veolia also operates a variety of services for West Berkshire including waste collection, recycling, disposal and street cleansing.
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 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 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.
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Operating
since 1990 |
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2007 revenues above £1.2 billion |
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12,500
employees |
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Serves 75,000
commercial and industrial customers |
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Circa 180
refuse collection, recycling, street cleansing and grounds maintenance contracts in partnership
with circa 100 local authorities and waste disposal
authorities |
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13 landfills
with a total void capacity of circa 48 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 53 million people worldwide
across 33 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)
• 749,000 industrial and tertiary sector customers
• 60 million people
served
• 41 million tonnes
of waste collected
• 66 million tonnes
of waste treated
• 100,000 employees
• Active in 35
countries
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