Veolia Environmental Services
| Industry | Management and treatment of waste |
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| Headquarters | Paris (France) |
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Key people
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Denis Gasquet, CEO of Veolia Environmental Services and Senior Executive Vice President and COO of Veolia Environnement |
| Revenue | €9.02 billion – 2009 |
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Number of employees
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77,864 (31 December 2009) |
| Website | www |
Veolia Environmental Services (in French Veolia Propreté) was a division of Veolia Environnement, now Veolia which includes the Water division without proper entities. It employs nearly 78,000 staff, has operations in 35 countries around the world, and generated revenues of nearly €9.02 billion in 2009.
It specialises in the management, treatment and disposal of waste, as well as the recycling, reclamation and re-use of waste products. Veolia Environmental Services manage solid and liquid waste, as well as hazardous and non-hazardous waste materials.
In 2009, the company collected 42.7 million tonnes of waste, treated 62.5 million tonnes, and recycled 12.7 million tonnes.
In 2015, Veolia North America was paid $40,000 to produce a report on Flint, Michigan's water supply. Veolia Vice President Rob Nicholas asserted that the water was safe to drink and met state and federal standards. The report received additional scrutiny in 2016 after a state of emergency was declared over toxic levels of chemicals detected in Flint's water supply. A Veolia spokesperson asserted that testing for lead and copper levels was beyond the scope of their work.
1953: The French Compagnie Générale des Eaux (CGE) begins to collect household waste.
1975: The firm SARP Industry is founded to treat hazardous waste.
1980: CGE takes full control of the Compagnie Générale de Chauffe (CGC), a company with which it has already operated incineration plants since 1967. CGE also assumes control of the Compagnie Générale d'Entreprises Automobiles (CGEA), a business with significant presence in household waste management and in urban transportation.
1986: CGE opens its first waste drop-off centres.
1989: Creation of the Onyx brand, which unifies all of CGEA’s waste management activities. CGEA-Onyx eventually becomes Onyx in 2004.
2000: Birth of Vivendi Environnement, spun out of the environmental activities of the Vivendi Group (previously CGEA). In 2003, Vivendi Environnement becomes Veolia Environnement.
2005: Onyx becomes Veolia Environmental Services.
Veolia Environmental Services collects, recycles and treats waste. Its activities cover liquid waste, solid waste, hazardous or non-hazardous waste, and refuse collected from household and industrial sources.
For private companies, it delivers the following services:
In 2009, Veolia Environmental Services had 819,000 business customers in the world.
For local authorities and boroughs (for example in Paris, London, Alexandria, Singapore and Dresden), Veolia Environmental Services collects and sorts waste, transports it to treatment subsidiaries and plants, and operates landfill sites.
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