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Veolia asks sports fans to consider environmental impact as litter rises
Veolia advance carbon reductions for one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England
The Veolia/UNITE Learning Centre has been named regional winner at the Adult Learners’ Week Awards
Veolia asks sports fans to consider environmental impact as litter rises
Westminster City Council and Veolia have showcased one of their upcycled electric refuse collection vehicles at the high profile ‘SMMT Electrified 2021’ parade in central London.
Veolia, the UK’s leading resource management company, in partnership with Westminster City Council, is trialling two electric pedal tricycles specially designed for on-street waste collection.
We're proud to support City of London Corporation in becoming the first UK authority to run a full fleet of Electric Refuse Collection Vehicles, which we'll use to collect recycling and waste in the Square Mile.
Love Your Leftovers cookbook created by students to encourage Watford to tackle the environmental issues of food wastage
Westminster City Council and Veolia have won the Waste Performance of the Year Award at the Keep Britain Tidy Network Awards 2021! Their successful food waste recycling trial covered 7,000 homes, with almost 300 tonnes of food waste recovered for recycling.
Research by leading resource management company Veolia reveals that Londoners who show their love for the planet stand a better chance of finding love themselves.
This winter, Veolia and Brent Council will be the first in the UK to operate an entire fleet of electric salt spreaders, which will grit the borough’s 1,700 roads in a safe and sustainable way.
Veolia, New West End Company and Westminster City Council are bringing back the environmentally friendly life-size light sculpture of a polar bear, made from 3,000 reused plastic bottles.
Why buy when you can fix? Veolia and Library of Things partner to upskill local residents
A collaborative project to promote environmental awareness and charitable giving over the festive season.
To help reduce food waste and promote food recycling, Veolia, in partnership with Lambeth and Southwark councils, is hosting a healthy Halloween pop-up cookery event on Sunday 20 October at Herne Hill Market, between 10am to 4pm.
Veolia and Brent Council have been praised for their sustainable management of Brent’s parks, receiving 11 London in Bloom awards for the delivery of an outstanding service.
If you’ve ever wondered what happens to your plastics after you’ve thrown them in the recycling bin, then don't miss your chance to see what goes on inside the UK’s most advanced recycling facility, at Veolia’s annual Wonder Day event on Saturday 21 September.
Global resource management company, Veolia, in partnership with Westminster City Council, is trialling two electric Refuse Collection Vehicles (eRCV) on the streets of London. 
Children growing up around Wembley Stadium connected by EE may dream of one day playing on its hallowed turf. Now they can come one step closer as over 130 tonnes of premier soil from the world famous pitch will be dispersed across London playing fields.  
Veolia deliver Pride’s most colourful clean up operation in celebration of jubilee year
Veolia invites Londoners to get funded during London Climate Action Week
Veolia’s Road to Work programme provides around 100 homeless people with a potentially life changing opportunity.
Plans for UK’s first fully electric refuse fleet as Veolia signs new tech-driven City waste contract
A series of essential environment focussed contracts delivering frontline services have been agreed for an initial 8 year period
Putting items in the right bin isn’t just good for the environment, it’s also attractive to potential partners.
A group of trained SWAT officers have been deployed to Bayswater by Westminster City Council – to tackle fly-tipping head-on.
Christmas sculpture designed to remind the public of the importance of minimising plastic waste consumption.
Veolia have awarded luxury prizes to three wheelie lucky Croydon residents who won a competition.
Groundbreaking technology developed in the UK will be fitted to rubbish trucks in Westminster, in the bid to reduce harmful emissions and nitrogen oxide by 99 per cent.
Veolia and Westminster City Council are celebrating the expansion of their on-street coffee cup recycling scheme, Good to-go with a reusable cup giveaway and an ambitious target to recycle 500,000 cups over the year ahead.
A visit to Wonder Day at the Veolia Integrated Waste Management Facility (IWMF) will help fill more than the minds of the curious. With a rare opportunity to see what happens to recycling behind the scenes, visitors will also receive clarity on which items should fill their bins, just in time for Recycle Week (24-30 September).
Thousands of traditional Caribbean costumes are worn at Notting Hill Carnival, however for one member of the Veolia clean up team, culture can be found in all outfits, including a street cleansing uniform.
This August, we're excited to be working with Aqua Nueva restaurant in Westminster to help ensure that their celebration of La Tomatina, ends in an environmentally friendly way.
Baker Street was home to the most famous detective in the world, however until recently creating a sustainable workplace for businesses remained an unsolved mystery. Now Veolia joins forces with the Baker Street Quarter Partnership (BakerStreetQ) to help close the case.
One of Brent’s local parks received a special delivery today, in the form of several tonnes of soil from Wembley Stadium’s hallowed tur
If the bright coloured floats, music and crowds didn’t convince you that Pride Paraders know how to party, the glitz and glamour of Veolia’s clean up will.
Streets in the London borough of Lambeth are about to get greener, as Veolia introduces zero emission electric street sweeping vehicles - its first in London and the UK.
Cleaning the streets and emptying the bins are some of the toughest jobs London has to offer, however Veolia has been recognised by Healthy Workplace Charter for supporting the health and wellbeing of its staff in the capital.
Featuring the latest technology, Veolia’s 22 new waste and recycling collection vehicles promise to be more efficient, safer for residents, and more environmentally friendly.
Today Veolia London announces that its Recycling Fund for Communities will double the money for community projects that have a positive impact on plastic waste.
This year Veolia’s London Marathon clean up has achieved a recycling win for the capital, seeing the streets in Tower Hamlets and Westminster returned to normal within 6 hours and over 300,000 plastic bottles collected for reprocessing.
A sustainable on-street solution for Londoners
Over the last 22 years approximately £306,000 has been awarded to local projects through the South East London Combined Heat and Power (SELCHP) community fund.
Snow and adverse conditions are impacting the safety of recycling and waste collection services across London, leading to some services being temporarily suspended. With more snow forecast, disruptions are expected to continue over the next few days.
The partnership between Veolia, the UK’s leading resource management company, and
Reuseful UK, a charity that reuses materials for the benefit of local communities, have won the
Rushlight Resource Recycling Award, for their project Re:Form – a new life for old uniforms.
​On 18 January Veolia will unveil Bottle Festoon as part of Lumiere London stressing the importance of preserving our environment and using waste as a resource as much as possible. The installation will transform used drinks bottles into glittering, eco-friendly chandeliers made by communities across the capital.