Insights, Innovation & Updates
Everything that you need to know about Ecological Transformation.
Veolia’s expert FM Team has identified five essential principles to guide you in selecting and cultivating successful FM partnerships and collaborations. These key insights will help you navigate the complex world of facilities management and ensure you build relationships that drive efficiency, innovation, and long-term success.
In this ongoing series, we will be shining a spotlight on some of our energy, waste and water facilities.
£77m has been invested for the research and development of electric and hydrogen heavy vehicles - a great step toward decarbonising transport, but with more EVs on UK roads, should we consider what happens to the end-of-life batteries?
The Plastic Packaging Tax was introduced to the UK this time last year, in April 2022. Now a year on, what has the tax achieved?
This World Water Day, "accelerating change" is on the agenda and businesses have an important role to play
According to The Public Building Energy Efficiency Report, local authorities aren’t moving anywhere near quick enough to meet Net Zero targets and must decarbonise UK buildings ‘five times faster’.
Find out the key policy highlights from January/February 2023
Uncover the truth behind the myths about recycled plastics.
Innovation is helping to speed up the cleaning and servicing of industrial sites. Here’s how the automated 5 lance system can help.
Legislation Updates
Government Announces New Departments for Energy Security and Net Zero
Legislation Updates
Chris Skidmore publishes his Net Zero Review, setting out the ‘historic opportunity’ offered by net zero.
Legislation Updates
BEIS has announced a new Energy Bills Discount Scheme (EBDS) for UK businesses, charities, and the public sector.
Legislation Updates
DEFRA publish Deposit Return Scheme Consultation Response
In only its second year of operation, the Sustainability Fund has provided over £80,000 in funding to a record-breaking 96 grassroots community projects across the UK in 2022.
Find out the key policy highlights from December 2022/January 2023
The UK Government has announced the introduction of a Deposit Return Scheme for drinks containers come 2025.
Legislation Updates
COP15 concluded with a long-term biodiversity agreement agreed upon by almost 200 countries.
Legislation Updates
Guidance and Regulatory Position Statements related to POPS waste
Legislation Updates
Environment Act 2021: environmental targets are concluded and the summary of responses have been released
Legislation Updates
DEFRA announces Obligation Checker ahead for EPR packaging
Service Innovation
Discover three closed-loop solutions that can reduce your businesses carbon footprint.
Energy is a precious resource so we are encouraging our business customers to consider these simple tips to help reduce energy use.
Find out the key policy highlights from November/December 2022.
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is a new piece of UK legislation, which will be coming into force in 2023 requiring businesses to change the way they collect and report data on packaging they handle, in the hope of delivering a more circular economy.
To meet the demand for services in petrochemical, ammonia, hydrogen and steel plants. Veolia has now extended the capabilities of its industrial site services (ISS) team.
Veolia has teamed up with Groundwork and Tesco to donate trees and bird boxes across the country as part of a new campaign to help schools blossom with biodiversity.
Veolia Industrial Site Services recently undertook a project at SELCHP ERF, in South London, to clean the plant to improve its efficiency to its clients.
Everything you need to know about COP27 and why it holds such importance
Solutions Day has held a significant focus on sustainable transport, urbanisation and developing technologies.
The summit takes on the theme of biodiversity as experts call for strong climate action citing climate measures as being crucial in the efforts to preserve nature.
Energy is the theme for day eight at COP27 today. Experts have gathered to discuss the use of solar and wind industries, renewables and the security of global energy.
For the first time in COP history, water has been given its dedicated day at COP27 due to being recognised as a crucial part of mitigating climate change.
The running theme for the sixth day of COP27 was adaptation and agriculture. Contributing to 18.4% of global GHG emissions, significant action is required across reducing emissions and building resilience.
‘The Decarbonisation Challenge’, is the title of today’s COP27 theme. The day looks further into keeping 1.5℃ in sight, Net Zero commitments and achievements and cutting carbon across industry.
The fourth day of COP27 continues the theme of resilience with a spotlight on science and future generations.
Exchequer Secretary James Cartlidge will set out how innovative new loan agreements will support the most vulnerable counties to the effects of climate change.
The World Leaders Summit opened the COP27 event in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Find out what leaders had to say about the climate crisis.
In this ongoing series, we will be shining a spotlight onto our facilities, sharing their unique features, capabilities and most importantly, their purpose.
Veolia launches its answer to the plastic revolution with PlastiLoop, the sustainable circular polymer solution.
With the number of electric vehicles on the road expected to grow from 8 million in 2020 to 116 million in 2030, ensuring stable access to raw materials is a strategic challenge. Circular solutions are the answer, in which Veolia have presence across the globe.
Find out the key policy highlights from July/August 2022, including greener UK borders, the Queen's Speech and some interesting water innovations.
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What’s the key to effective and efficient operations? In our experience, it’s people, expertise and communication. And many of our customers agree.
The upcoming Carbon Emissions Tax could see businesses charged around £16 per tonne of carbon that exceeds a set annual allowance. For some businesses, this could mean hefty charges. Are you prepared?
'Where does our plastic go?' The Times journalist Ben Cooke set out to answer this enduring question recently, and visited our plastics recycling facility in Dagenham to find out more about our closed-loop recycling process.
Download your copy of 'How to Transition your Business to a Circular Economy', and discover more about the closed-loop approach.
Find out about June and July's policy highlights, including the Scottish Government's decision to ban single-use plastics and how you can help to halt and improve the world's biodiversity and climate crisis.
We are all aware of the Net Zero deadline looming ahead of us - the UK needs to be carbon neutral by 2050. There are many different issues and sectors that we need to focus on to get there, including transport.
In 2011, the Veolia Environmental Trust awarded £100,000 to Ideal for All, a user-led charity and social enterprise based in the West Midlands. This funding supported Ideal for All to create Barlow Road Community Garden, a valuable space providing health and wellbeing benefits for local residents.
In 2011, the Veolia Environmental Trust awarded £300,000 to the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust to fund the creation of the Cre8 Barn. Over a decade on, we revisited the Barn to find out how the site is benefitting both the environment and local community.
At Veolia, we build this trust by creating real social value, ensuring we are operating responsibly, ethically and sustainably across all business functions.
Beyond providing essential water, waste and energy services, we are committed to supporting societal development in all of the regions in which we operate.
We are committed to achieving ecological transformation. We ensure our business operations reflect that by adopting efficient, low-carbon and sustainable solutions.
At Veolia, our ambition is to become the benchmark for ecological transformation, reversing the effects of climate change and protecting our planet's natural resources. However, we can't do it alone. We can only achieve our vision of a greener future through building valuable customer partnerships.