Veolia

Veolia Environmental Services has firmly established itself as the United Kingdom's leading waste management provider, offering an impressive range of waste management services and solutions to Local Authorities and commercial businesses.

Known for our expertise, excellence in service and for working in partnership with clients, our aim is to offer a seamless, quality service, to minimise the impact of waste on the environment and the local communities in which we operate and to promote minimisation, reuse and recycling wherever and whenever possible.

The waste management industry in the UK has undergone many changes in the past decade. Increasing regulation has been introduced with the ultimate aim of reducing the UK's traditional reliance on landfill disposal. Veolia Environmental Services is at the forefront of adapting and extending our capabilities to meet industry challenges, and is committed to the principle of sustainable waste management.

Veolia Environmental Services takes care of customer requirements in a professional and timely manner, achieving a balance between efficient and cost-effective waste management and keeping the environment safe. Our innovative approach to waste collection, treatment and disposal ensures that customers can take advantage of the most practical and sustainable waste management solutions available.

Veolia Environmental Services manages its customers needs from an unrivalled network of service centres and disposal sites strategically located across the United Kingdom. Veolia Environmental Services is one of the world's leading providers of waste management and cleaning services. It is part of Veolia Environnement, the world leader in environmental services.   

About Us 

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 2008 revenues above £1.3 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.

Key figures

• Operating since 1990
• 2008 revenues above £1.3 billion
• 12,500 employees
• Serves 73,000 commercial and industrial customers
• Circa 130 refuse collection, recycling, street cleansing and grounds maintenance contracts in partnership with circa 100 local authorities and waste disposal authorities
• 13 landfills with a total void capacity of circa 48 million m3
• Total installed power generation of 233 Mw
• 6 energy recovery facilities with a total capacity of 1.4 million tonnes
• 5 composting facilities with a total tonnage of green waste processed of 200,000 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 70 million people worldwide across 42 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.