Cleanzine: your weekly cleaning and hygiene industry newsletter 16th January 2025 Issue no. 1145
Your industry news - first
The original and best - for over 20 years!
We strongly recommend viewing Cleanzine full size in your web browser. Click our masthead above to visit our website version.
Veolia supports Wembley's greenest UEFA Champions League Final
While over 86,000 people enjoyed watching Real Madrid win the 2024 UEFA Champions League final at Wembley Stadium, Veolia's municipal team of 20 recycling staff collected 6.2 tonnes of materials from in and around the stadium.
Veolia, supported Wembley Stadium and Brent Council to deliver their greenest UEFA Champions League Final by managing the recycling and waste from public areas around the stadium. Whilst the average football match generates 4.2 tonnes of waste, on Saturday 1st June, Veolia collected a staggering 6.2 tonnes of waste from the UEFA Champions League Final's external operations alone. That's the same weight as an elephant or 826 UEFA Champions League winners trophies!
Veolia's new GreenUp business strategy focuses on decarbonisation, depollution and regeneration of resources. Veolia handles large volumes of materials, ensuring they are separated for effective recycling, whilst also managing the street cleansing and transportation of materials in and around Wembley.
The recent innovation of a fully electric fleet around the stadium also ensures noise and air pollution is kept to a minimum with the introduction of electric road sweepers, e-bikes and electric refuse collection vehicles that service the area. The four vehicles handle all waste and recycling in the area to support Veolia's staff to deliver a safe and sustainable event experience.
"Games do not get much bigger than the Champions League Final and Veolia is delighted to be providing Wembley's waste and recycling operations for these high profile events,” says Gisela Endres, senior contract manager, Veolia.
.
"We are committed to finding the most sustainable solutions and supporting Wembley to deliver on its ecological targets. We look forward to continuing our partnership and implementing more innovations that will increase recycling rates and promote sustainable events."
Councillor Krupa Sheth, Brent Council says:
"The Champions League Final is one of the most significant events in the sporting calendar. It is a tremendous honour for both Wembley and Brent Council to host them. Brent Council, in partnership with Veolia, is proud to support these events by providing effective, efficient, and sustainable waste and recycling operations."
The Veolia group aims to become the benchmark company for ecological transformation. Present on five continents with nearly 218,000 employees, the Group designs and deploys useful and concrete solutions for water, waste and energy management that contribute to radically changing the situation. Through its three complementary activities, Veolia contributes to developing access to resources, preserving available resources and renewing them. In 2023, the Veolia group will serve 113 million inhabitants with drinking water and 103 million with sanitation, produce 42 terawatt hours of energy and recover 63 million tonnes of waste. Veolia Environnement (Paris Euronext: VIE) achieved consolidated revenue of 45.3 billion euros in 2023.
1st August 2024