Veolia Environnement : joins the Toilet Board Coalition, the first global platform dedicated to accelerating the sanitation economy.
May 15, 2018 at 08:18 am EDT
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15 may 2018
Veolia becomes the first water, waste and energy management group to join the Toilet Board Coalition (TBC), alongside the founding companies Unilever, Kimberly-Clark, Lixil, Firmenich and Tata.
For Charlie Beevor, Chairman of the TBC and Unilever Global Vice-President Household Cleaning Brands, 'Veolia fills an important role within the TBC as a leader in circular economy waste management and smart city solutions: sanitation needs innovations to improve and transform existing systems.'
'Veolia is honored to join the Toilet Board Coalition that we recognize as a true pioneer in creating a very innovative dynamic to address the major social and environmental challenge of sanitation by facilitating the emergence of local entrepreneurial initiatives. We are committed to fully leverage our skills, know-how and business network to lead to the needed scaling up of these initiatives to reach the shared ambition of bringing a major contribution in tackling the sanitation crisis,' says Laurent Auguste, Veolia Senior Executive Vice President Development, Innovation & Markets.
This public-private partnership brings together multinational corporations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and social investors around a common goal: 'sanitation for all'. Access to sanitation is indeed a major issue: according to a joint report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF released in 2017, 4.4 billion people - i.e. 60% of the global population - do not have safe sanitation services.
'The Circular Sanitation Economy is an enormous opportunity to drive value from sanitation systems and to provide solutions for the world's resource constraints such as water and nutrients. We are so pleased to welcome Veolia, a global expert and leader, with the joint goal to accelerate these opportunities which we believe hold significant benefits for business and society,' Cheryl Hicks, Toilet Board Coalition Executive Director & CEO.
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>Veolia's water management expertise
>Wastewater reuse: a second life for an essential resource
>Toilet Board Coalition
>Sanitation Economy
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Veolia Environnement is the world leader in environmental management services. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- water-related services (40.6%; No. 1 worldwide): water resources management, drinking water distribution and delivery, wastewater collection, treatment and recovery, engineering, design, construction of water treatment facilities and customer relationship management, etc.;
- waste management services (32.4%; no. 1 worldwide): collection, treatment and recycling of liquid, solid, non-hazardous and hazardous waste, waste treatment and recovery through composting, energy recovery from waste, etc. Veolia Environnement also provides urban waste management services (maintenance and cleaning of public spaces, provision of mechanized street cleaning and façade treatment services), maintenance of industrial sites, and dismantling of industrial facilities and equipment at the end of their useful life;
- energy services (27%; No. 1 in Europe): delegated management of urban heating and air conditioning networks, management of thermal and multi-technique services (operation of heating systems, facility design, construction, and maintenance, etc.) and industrial services (industrial process analysis, production equipment operation, service, and maintenance), general management of buildings and public lighting.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: France (21.5%), Europe (41.9%), North America (7.4%), Asia (5.6%), Africa and the Middle East (4.9%), Pacific (4.3%), Latin America (4%) and other (10.4%).