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Soil, factories, aquifers, buildings, accidental leakages… Our remediation services help to protect the environment whilst paving the way for urban renewal projects or the continuation of production activities.
Integrated remediation solutions
By offering a fully comprehensive range of remediation services we are able to satisfy the various different needs encountered by companies and municipalities alike: cleaning up waste disposal areas at industrial sites; decontaminating production sites, soil and aquifers; cleaning or deconstructing buildings; removing and treating polluted equipment, etc. Thanks to our detailed knowledge of the remediation chain we are able to provide integrated solutions for one or several sites. Skoda, for instance, awarded us a contract for the full rehabilitation of its Czech Republic facility near Plzen, covering a total area of 30 square kilometres.
Targeted initiatives to safeguard the environment
We also provide ad hoc services to treat specific types of pollution: extracting and treating spent batteries in Mexico, treating groundwater in western Paris by installing a pumping and treatment unit, rehabilitating the former Browns Bay waste dump in the Antarctic, etc. We can also help clean up accidental pollution in emergencies. In both New Jersey and Virginia in the United States, we have thus dealt with pollution leakages by setting up confinement barriers, pumping and evacuating the offending product, evacuating the soil, monitoring air and water quality, etc.
Remediation through innovation
In order to develop this approach still further, Veolia Environmental Services is currently implementing a number of innovative solutions that are both environmentally-friendly and economically advantageous. In Lyons, for example, we have set up France’s very first thermal treatment centre for soil contaminated by hydrocarbons. We are also working in conjunction with France’s national scientific research centre, the CNRS, to develop a plant-based remediation process for soil polluted by sludge spreading. Baptized phytoremediation, the process consists of using plants to trap toxic products such as heavy metals.
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