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Waste transfer stations, transporting waste by rail or waterway… Veolia Environmental Services provides high-performance logistical services that show respect for quality of life.
Waste transfer stations: at the heart of the system
At the very heart of the waste treatment chain, our waste transfer stations enable us to group waste together and sort it into different types before forwarding it to the appropriate treatment facilities. Directing separate flows of waste to one centralized location creates economies of scale and reduces transport-related fuel consumption. We currently manage numerous waste transfer stations for companies and municipalities all around the world: Australia, the United States, Hong Kong, France, Great Britain, etc. In Hong Kong, we have West Kowloon and North Lantau Marine Transfer Station using advanced technologies such as moving floor conveyor system, mechanical waste compactors, electrical dolly system and container gantry cranes are put in place in the WKRTS to optimize the reception and handling process.
The benefits of rail transport
Keen to offer logistical solutions that are economically and ecologically acceptable, Veolia Environmental Services has decided to develop its use of multimodal transport, and notably rail. In Sydney, waste is shipped by rail to our landfill site located 250km away, thus reducing the number of annual lorry trips by almost 35,000. In Cranberry Creek in Wisconsin, our landfill site is directly linked to the rail network and has its own unloading bay to handle foundry sand, bottom ash from thermal power plants, paper mill waste and other industrial waste, all brought in by freight car.
The advantages of using the waterways
Waterways are another type of transport we favour, since they boast numerous advantages in terms of safety, energy consumption, pollution and noise. The Lens-Liévin and Hénin-Carvin district authorities in France needed no further convincing, and opted for this solution when awarding us the contract to transfer 400,000 tons of green waste on their behalf each year. As a result, the 1,600 trips that were previously made by 25-ton lorries have now been replaced by 60 barge trips. In Paris, meanwhile, the figures truly speak for themselves: the waste collected in the French capital is consolidated and compacted at our transit centre in the port of Gennevilliers, and then transferred by barge to the landfill site at Claye-Souilly, with two barges transporting the equivalent of 25 articulated lorry-loads of waste (500 tons) each day.
Our references
West Kowloon Refuse Transfer Station, Hong Kong
North Lantau Refuse Transfer Station, Hong Kong
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