shortfall. If other sectors are to make on site - removing the need the retention of the energy and materials
similar contributions, if we as a nation for thousands of waste vehicle embedded in waste, contributing to the
and as a planet are to make sustainable movements per year decoupling of economic growth from
choices, it is critical we calculate the cost
of carbon on our natural world. Currently
we’re scratching the surface with
initiatives to curb carbon - to overturn the
shortfall, we must think long term but act
today.”
Veolia is already at the forefront of green
innovation:
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solutions for resource efficiency, Veolia
is carbon positive and now saves over 2
million tonnes of CO2 emissions for its
customers.
Professor Nick Voulvoulis, Professor
of Environmental Technology, Imperial
College London led the research
harvest renewable energy from commissioned by Veolia:
sufficient water treatment sites
“While effective new strategies and
policies are urgently needed to ensure
In our plastics facility in London we that UK greenhouse gas emissions
process 300,000,000 bottles (HDPE) continue to fall, the Waste and Resource
turning them into high quality food sector offers a great potential to reduce
grade pellets for manufacturing the carbon shortfall in the country’s 4th
We transform around 248,000
tonnes of food waste by-products
natural resources.”
and energy, and developing tailored
At 50 water treatment works, we
sludge helping to create self-
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By manufacturing green products
and 5th carbon budgets and to combat
climate change.
from manufacturing to generate The sector can facilitate the transition to
renewable heat and electricity a green, zero waste economy, maximising
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