Improving quality of life and raising awareness

Through its four core businesses, the company is committed to offering creative solutions that will stand the test of time. Solutions that transform the urban landscape and improve living conditions for people around the world.

Examples include developing tools to detect, identify and extract unwanted odors from drinking water and that enhance the overall quality of water. Elsewhere, reducing noise pollution and unwanted smells from public transportation and waste collection services helps improve people's personal environment. Producing biogas from decomposing waste makes it possible to develop new energy sources to power refuse-collection vehicles. In the near future, heavy goods vehicles, road sweepers and buses will also run on biogas.

Improving quality of life means also understanding the expectations of the people living in cities and taking into account the specific characteristics of their urban environment. That is why Veolia Environnement set up the Veolia Observatory of Urban Lifestyles. This sociological body of research gives local authorities feedback on the expectations and priorities of residents. It offers vital insight into urban issues and helps Veolia Environnement better adapt its services.

Because everyone has a part to play in improving living standards, Veolia Environnement also seeks to step up awareness-raising campaigns that can better inform city dwellers of the advantages of changing their everyday lives in ways that help the environment, such as using water and energy more efficiently, taking public transit more often and sorting waste. Veolia provides authorities and schools in its catchment areas with educational resources to raise the awareness of young people on the need to safeguard natural resources.