Edelway: a label for environmental performance

Helping our clients to push boundaries

SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT strives to be more than just a company in the water and waste sector. The Group aims to do more than just demonstrate that it can run successful projects. As a committed partner, it helps its customers reconcile environmental performance with economic performance.

Through the EDELWAY initiative launched in 2008, SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT becomes a genuine long-term partner to its customers. The Group’s commercial offers are combined with a contractual commitment to environmental performance, in three basic areas:

• curbing greenhouse gas emissions,
• conserving natural resources,
• protecting biodiversity.

EDELWAY: a truly unrivalled initiative

EDELWAY is a mix all of SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT’s solutions for improving environmental performance in water and waste management. The Group’s new offers under the EDELWAY label must meet the following three criteria:

• timelined and quantified performance guarantees that attract financial compensation,
• measurement tools approved by an independent third party and/or mutually agreed with the customer in advance,
• a clearly displayed and legible commitment.

To satisfy its ambitions and continually improve the quality of the services it delivers, SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT has put innovation at the heart of the company’s strategy and that of its subsidiaries:

• Ondeo Industrial Solutions, a Group subsidiary, has developed the Biocontrol+ technology, which allows industrial customers to reduce sludge production by up to 90%.
• The Group’s subsidiary Lyonnaise des Eaux has designed Degrés Bleus, a system for producing heat from wastewater pipelines, thereby reducing its customers’ carbon footprint.
• SITA France has also developed a package of tailored solutions to allow local authorities to organise sustainable waste collection. Its purpose, among others, is to reduce the energy used in providing the service, by using alternative fuel vehicles, for example. It also strives to minimise urban impacts by reducing the traffic noise caused by waste collection vehicles.