Today’s economy uses natural resources as though they are inexhaustible. But these resources are becoming scarcer, and more costly to exploit. Exploiting new resource deposits also risks increasing pollution.
In this context, SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT’s activities entail not just providing environmental services essential to people’s well-being, but also actively managing natural resources.
Consequently, SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT designs and deploys carefully considered resource management solutions to avoid unsustainable resource exploitation. These solutions aim to transform the current resource management model:
- from a linear economy, which exhausts resources without controlling either by-products or waste,
- to a circular economy, which manages by-products in such a way that they can be fed back into ecosystems in a near-cyclical manner.
The circular economy limits resource waste, and enables a new, more ecologically responsible model of economic growth.
Specifically, the policy seeks to:
Best practices
- A joint venture between Renault and SITA France aims to ramp up ecologically responsible vehicle processing. The goal is to achieve 95% reclamation of all car parts between now and 2015.
- In 2006, Lyonnaise des Eaux successfully saved 12 million m3 of water, equivalent to the water consumption of a town of 230,000 inhabitants.
