What will Veolia Environmental Services do?
Veolia Environmental Services is helping Nottinghamshire County Council to manage its waste for the next 26 years. To manage waste in an environmentally sound and efficient way that meets legislation, Veolia Environmental Services will put the following actions into practice: • Encourage waste reduction through education • Assist the council to increase recycling and composting rates to 52 percent by 2020 • Improve Household Waste Recycling Centres in the county • Build a Material Recovery Facility to sort recyclable material collected from households • Establish a composting facility to recycle garden waste • Build an Energy Recovery Facility to incinerate Approximately 180,000 tonnes of waste a year. The facility will produce up to 15MW of electrical energy, enough to power up to 15,000 homes • Significantly reduce the amount of waste going to landfill.
