Biodiesel:
Available resources, the required technical expertise and industrial capacity to use them, a strategic location and a synergy to be activated: these are the terms of the equation of Veolia’s Biodiesel project.
In France, official consent was given in April 2006. It is consistent with the second phase of the program implemented by the French government for the development of biofuels. 60,000 tons of biodiesel will be produced from 2008 on the Limay site, in the Ile-de-France region, with used edible oils and vegetal virgin oils. The establishment in the harbor district of Limay makes it possible to use river transportation to supply the unit and dispatch the finished product. It also acts as a hub for several of the Group’s activities: used oils are collected by a dedicated subsidiary of Veolia Environmental Services and the treatment of the site’s hazardous waste makes it possible to recover the energy used in the biodiesel manufacturing process.
