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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.
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.
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.
Veolia and a local family from Merton worked together to craft a perfect surprise gift for their son’s birthday who is fascinated with the recycling collection vehicles.
Since its launch in January this year, over £12,000 from Veolia’s Recycling Fund for Communities has been awarded to 17 projects across London which benefit the local environment and community. We want to help even more projects, so we’re relaunching our fund to accept applications up until 28 February 2018.
This November, a new campaign called “Small Change, Big Difference” will help Londoners make a big difference to their health, pockets and the planet by getting savvier with their food. The campaign is all about eating more healthily and sustainably, reducing the food we waste at home, and recycling more of the inedible bits.
Two visually impaired sisters from Sutton are now able to easily identify their wheelie bins and recycle as much as they can after holes were drilled into their containers for easy identification by the waste collection service provider, Veolia.
This week schools across Sutton borough are celebrating Recycle Week which is the UK’s annual event to build awareness of, and encourage increased participation in recycling behaviour.
Around 1,800 visitors to Veolia’s Wonder Weekend came in their droves to learn about recycling and waste as two facilities opened their doors to the public as part of Open House London.
Veolia celebrates its apprentices’ success at House of Commons awards ceremony
The UK’s leading resource management company, Veolia, has recognised the vital role apprenticeships play in its business by hosting its third consecutive National Apprentice of the Year Awards ceremony at the House of Commons. With approximately 300 apprentices across the business, the company has once again demonstrated its commitment to its apprentices, as it believes they play a vital role in closing the national skills gap while helping to attract new talent to its ranks.
The UK’s leading resource management company, Veolia, has recognised the vital role apprenticeships play in its business by hosting its third consecutive National Apprentice of the Year Awards ceremony at the House of Commons. With approximately 300 apprentices across the business, the company has once again demonstrated its commitment to its apprentices, as it believes they play a vital role in closing the national skills gap while helping to attract new talent to its ranks.
Enough green energy to make 700,000 cups of tea from the rubbish cleaned up at Notting Hill Carnival
The largest street festival in Europe created 200 tonnes of rubbish over two days.
More than one million people descended on Notting Hill and surrounding streets, along the 3.5 mile route, as part of the celebration of Caribbean culture.
More than one million people descended on Notting Hill and surrounding streets, along the 3.5 mile route, as part of the celebration of Caribbean culture.
Veolia and a local family from Sutton worked together to craft a perfect gift for their
son's birthday who is fascinated with recycling collection vehicles.
son's birthday who is fascinated with recycling collection vehicles.
Recycling in Sutton has increased under a new waste and recycling service introduced by Sutton Council working together with Veolia. Although the implementation of the new waste contract has been challenging, expected dividends are now being realised.
As 50,000 celebrated LGBT culture in one of the biggest Pride celebrations in Europe on Saturday 8 July, over 140 extra staff and vehicles cleared bottles, banners and flags so that the streets were left clean and sparkly.
Veolia’s solution set to answer The Capital’s coffee cup conundrum
Veolia, through its subsidiary Veolia ES UK Ltd - UK’s leading resource management company, has signed a major new recycling and waste services contract spanning four South London boroughs. The new eight year contract worth over £209 million, with two possible eight year extensions, has seen 330 staff join Veolia from 1 April, when the new contract began.
In the last 21 years over £260,000 has been awarded to local projects through the SELCHP community fund.
We are pleased to announce that Veolia, the UK’s leading resource management company, has been shortlisted for the 2017 Private-Public Sector Partnership Award, for their project ‘Re:Form – a new life for old uniforms.’
Veolia sets the bar high by collecting and recycling 80,000 books across London with Southwark and Westminster leading the way
Roses are red, violets are blue, but don’t forget the environment, it needs your love too
Recycling Fund for Communities: Boosting green projects across the capital!
Today, Veolia London is launching its Recycling Fund for Communities, a new community fund for 2017 designed to support grassroots projects that inspire people to think differently about waste and resources.
Today, Veolia London is launching its Recycling Fund for Communities, a new community fund for 2017 designed to support grassroots projects that inspire people to think differently about waste and resources.
Veolia introducing state-of-the-art street cleansing machines
Resource management company Veolia, contracted by Croydon Council to undertake street cleansing, recycling and waste management on behalf of all the borough’s residents, is introducing four new mechanical street sweepers onto the streets of Croydon.
Resource management company Veolia, contracted by Croydon Council to undertake street cleansing, recycling and waste management on behalf of all the borough’s residents, is introducing four new mechanical street sweepers onto the streets of Croydon.
The waste collected by Veolia Lambeth along London Southbank has been turned into waste to power London homes following the New Year fireworks display.
Uniforms used by workers whilst keeping the streets clean will continue to support the community even after they’re worn out thanks to a joint innovation by resource management company, Veolia and national charity, Reuseful UK.
The first truck containing approximately 15 tonnes of waste left the former Waste4Fuel site in St Mary Cray today.
As we move deeper into Autumn, Veolia Haringey is reminding all residents that when tending to their gardens for the last time this year to ensure they place all cuttings in their white hessian sacks for collection.
Campaign educating residents on different things they can recycle at home.
Veolia Haringey has launched a new campaign targeting residents in Crouch End and Bounds Green, trying to encourage them to recycle even more materials from their homes.
Veolia Haringey has launched a new campaign targeting residents in Crouch End and Bounds Green, trying to encourage them to recycle even more materials from their homes.
Brent Council is celebrating winning four gold awards, one silver and three silver gilt awards at the prestigious London in Bloom Awards, building on last year’s achievements, so well done to all at Veolia’s grounds maintenance teams responsible for these sites.
Wonder Day visitors come in their droves to learn about waste.
Over 850 visitors attended the Southwark Integrated Waste Management Facility’s ‘Wonder day’, which opened its doors for its annual event on Saturday. The event which is part of the Open House Weekend, was deemed a ‘quirky day out’ by Time Out magazine, provided a rare insight into the fascinating journey waste takes to become either recycled or turned into a green energy resource.
Over 850 visitors attended the Southwark Integrated Waste Management Facility’s ‘Wonder day’, which opened its doors for its annual event on Saturday. The event which is part of the Open House Weekend, was deemed a ‘quirky day out’ by Time Out magazine, provided a rare insight into the fascinating journey waste takes to become either recycled or turned into a green energy resource.
Five employees from Veolia, Watford Borough Council’s partners for waste and recycling collections, street cleansing and grounds maintenance services, helped Watford’s Holy Rood Catholic Primary School prepare for the arrival of a very special visitor.
Learn about the journey of waste! Southwark’s annual Wonder Day will take place on Saturday 17 September, in time to celebrate Recycle Week (12 – 18 September).
Southwark’s Integrated Waste Management Facility will be screening ‘Waste Land’ a documentary that chronicles award-winning artist Vik Muniz as he travels to the world’s largest landfill.
The UK’s leading resource management company, Veolia, has successfully secured three contracts for the sustainable treatment of domestic and business recycling and waste from Westminster City Council. Veolia will provide a suite of sustainable solutions based on its industry expertise and extensive treatment infrastructure to help the Council reach its target of zero waste to landfill.
Veolia, the company responsible for recycling and waste collections for Richmond Council, has been recognised as a leader in environmental and social responsibility by winning the Responsible Business of the Year Award 2016, Business in the Community’s flagship award.
As 50,000 celebrate LGBT culture in one of the biggest Pride celebrations in Europe on Saturday 25th June, 140 extra staff and vehicles will be poised to clear Westminster streets so that they’re clean and sparkly for all to enjoy.
Six bee hives have been installed at the Southwark recycling and waste facility to increase biodiversity at the site and positively impact the local environment. The facility which is situated on Old Kent Road is run by Veolia, the recycling and waste partner of Southwark Council, who plan to sell the honey to raise money for their charity partner FoodCycle.
As the days start to get longer and more of us are spending time outside in the garden enjoying the outdoors, Watford residents are being reminded about the importance of making full use of the green waste bin for their organic garden and food waste.
To celebrate this year’s Real Nappy Week (18 to 24 April), Veolia the recycling and waste partner of Southwark Council are hosting a bundle of baby and toddler storytime sessions as part of their real nappy demonstration activities at local libraries.
In celebration of this year’s Compost Awareness Week (2 to 8 May), Veolia the recycling and waste partner of Southwark Council are giving away five compost bins every day for the whole week. The giveaway is taking place from Monday 2 May at the Reuse and Recycling centre on Old Kent Road and is open to all Southwark residents.