Veolia Umweltservice GmbH, Germany

Veolia Umweltservice with its headquarters in Hamburg is one of the leading waste management companies in Germany and world leader in the recovered paper sector. It is one of the few service providers to cover all areas of waste management (solid, liquid, commercial, hazardous and non-hazardous waste) on a national basis.

Business activities include marketing of secondary materials and all kinds of services ranging from recycling and waste management logistics, pipe and sewer

maintenance, industrial and building services and industrial cleaning to street cleaning. Veolia Umweltservice works for private, commercial and industrial customers and also operates on a municipal level. Veolia Umweltservice provides closed cycles for recyclable materials and complete customerorientated solution strategies and stands for responsible and sustainable business practices for the benefit of the environment.

In 2009 Veolia Umweltservice generated a turnover of € 1.1 bn and employed approximately 10,000 people. Veolia Umweltservice operates about 200 service and plant locations nationwide of which 120 are sorting and recycling plants. As a 100% subsidiary of the French Veolia Environnement group Veolia Umweltservice is part of the world’s market leader for environmental services who generated a turnover of more than € 36 bn with over 300,000 employees in 2009.