Veolia Environmental Services Birmingham Limited is a project company, set up in 1993 as Tyseley Waste Disposal Limited, to manage the domestic waste arising from the city of Birmingham. Since 2024, Veolia has secured a 10-year integrated waste treatment contract with Birmingham City Council, to operate as its strategic partner to deal with waste arisings, maximise recycling and produce Energy Recovery.
Managing Birmingham's domestic waste
In 1996 Veolia ES Birmingham built a state-of-the-art Energy Recovery Facility in Tyseley, just to the east of Birmingham City Centre, which takes 350,000 tonnes of Birmingham’s rubbish each year and converts it into electricity. This energy production is enough to power 55,000 local homes.
In addition, we also operate all five of the Household Recycling Centres in the city which currently see about 100,000 tonnes of rubbish delivered per year. We are also responsible for operating two major waste transfer stations and handle the majority of materials collected via the Council-operated kerbside collection schemes, which are increasing across the city.
We aim to assist Birmingham City Council to continue to be one of the top-performing local authorities in terms of landfill avoidance; to help them to improve on their current recycling rate of 17% and to exceed their recycling target of 35% by the year 2011/12 by providing the necessary infrastructure and services to succeed.
Veolia is proud to have ISO9000, ISO14001, OHSAS18001, ISO50001 and ISO22301 accreditation.
Veolia in the United Kingdom
The UK leader in environmental solutions, Veolia provides a comprehensive range of waste, water and energy management services designed to build the circular economy and preserve scarce raw materials.
We're innovators committed to focusing on carbon reduction by preventing pollution, preserving natural resources, protecting biodiversity, combating climate change and raising environmental awareness.
Our GreenUp strategy is a four-year program, running from the start of 2024 to the end of 2027. GreenUp means accelerating the "greening" of activities that are essential to us. This includes processes that give us our food and our travel and also allow us to have a good quality of life.
Ultimately, GreenUp aims to make Veolia the missing link, providing the necessary solutions to achieve ecological transformation.
But how will we do this? By increasing the rate at which we deploy affordable, replicable solutions that depollute, decarbonise and regenerate our resources. To do this, we’ll use three growth boosters which have historically been strongholds:
Bioenergy, flexibility and energy efficiency
Water technologies and new solutions
Hazardous waste treatment
WHAT IS ECOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION?
Ecological transformation means adapting, improving, and prioritising sustainable patterns of production and consumption. It means placing ecology at the forefront of our processes, solutions, and most importantly our mindset.
At Veolia, we continuously work to develop and improve both new and existing solutions in an attempt to provide radical, solutions to major problems, with and for its stakeholders: local authorities, manufacturers, civil society, employees, etc.
WHAT ARE THE FOUR PILLARS OF ECOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION?
The four pillars of ecological transformation form a foundation upon which our society can build and develop:
