Suez Environnement

Natural resources are finite.

Suez Environnement and its subsidiaries are committed to the daily challenge of protecting resources and ecosystems. The company provides innovative solutions to millions of people and industries in the drinking water, wastewater treatment and waste management fields.

In the water sector, Suez Environnement’s operations include:

• the catchment, treatment and distribution of drinking water,
• the collection and purification of domestic and industrial water,
• the biological and energy development of waste resulting from purification.

In the waste sector, Suez Environnement ensures:

• collection of all kinds of waste (apart from radioactive waste) and urban waste,
• selection and preliminary treatment of waste,
• recycling; material, biological and energy recovery of recoverable waste and elimination of residual waste by incineration or landfill.

Challenges

The environment is no longer a simple concern of proactive governments. It has become a global economic issue.

The environment has become an increasingly important factor for the world economy. China, a rapidly developing country, has begun to integrate environmental policies into its plans for economic growth. The 10th Chinese five-year plan (2001-2005) has therefore devoted 1.5 % of the country's GDP to safeguarding the environment.

Companies, local authorities and citizens have come to realise the importance of changing their behaviour in order to preserve their natural resources and the environment.

Urbanization, environmental regulations, the skyrocketing of commodity prices, including oil, and the need to control and reduce CO2 emissions are some of the factors driving these changes.