Integrated report 2022-2023

To contribute to the fight against climate change, Veolia has committed itself and its customers to rolling out solutions for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions: energy efficiency, heat networks, renewable energy production, the recovery of waste matter and water, and adaptation solutions such as water recycling.

• Accelarating reuse: In France, the Vendée Eau association is planning against the risk of a future water shortage in its region and has opted for a solution that is being pioneered in Europe – the Jourdain REUT (Reuse of Treated Wastewater) program to supply drinking water. In Morocco, wastewater reuse has long been considered an alternative solution to water shortages.
• Iliminating coal: Veolia is committed to eliminating coal from the energy production units that it manages in Europe by 2030. And to do this, the Group has created a €1.5 billion investment plan.

Liquid and hazardous waste, along with plastic waste, represent a major risk, and their treatment is a lever for limiting the environmental impact of industrial activity and avoiding the spread of pollution. Veolia is providing solutions that combine flexibility and diversity,

• Promoting circularity in plastics: With its integrated platform PlastiLoop, Veolia enables its customers to obtain recycled plastic resins anywhere in the world, from a range of high-performance, ready-to-use polymers.
• Recovering hazardous waste: At its energy recovery plant in Taixing, 60 km from Shanghai, Veolia processes the liquid and gas waste from some 800 companies in the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park (SCIP) and wider region, including around a hundred petrochemical groups. In the Middle East, where Veolia is a pioneer and principal supplier of hazardous waste management solutions, the Group will more than double its activity from 2023 onward.

Veolia is making it possible to create “secondary” resources that will gradually offset the depletion of natural or “primary” resources.

• Transforming wastewater and waste into biomethane: In France, at the Valenton wastewater treatment plant – Europe’s second largest –, Veolia and the managing authority (Siaap – the greater Paris Sanitation Authority) are beginning construction of France’s largest facility for the production and injection of wastewater treatment-derived biomethane. In Brazil, on the three waste management sites for the States of São Paulo and Santa Catarina, Veolia is maximizing the energy recovery of biogas with the installation of three power plants.
• Conserving drinking water: In Southern California (United States), where drought has raged since the 1970s and almost 60% of the water consumed is imported, Veolia’s Edward C. Little facility supplies up to 180,000 m3 of treated wastewater a day.