23SUEZ

FOCUS ON THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY

At a time when lawmakers are reasserting their intention to promote the circular economy within the European Union as well as in China, Australia and Japan, and while awareness of the growing scarcity of resources is increasing worldwide, SUEZ aims to maintain its lead in circular economy solutions with four ambitions:

make secondary raw materials a viable alternative to virgin materials through greater selectiveness in the capture of waste flows and the modernisation of sorting centres;

develop sophisticated processing technologies to accelerate the reintegration of recycled products, including plastics and non-ferrous metals;

expand the range of renewable energy (solar/ wind) by increasing the production of energy from waste and biowaste;

given that recycling resources that have already been used will alone not be enough to meet global demand (if all the world's existing copper was reused today, this would only cover 37% of demand according to Ademe), SUEZ also intends to accelerate eco-design by strengthening its cooperation with manufacturers to minimise the impact of production from the earliest stages and ensure that products have a long life.

A change of scale in the circular economy: SUEZ is revisiting the waste value chain, from collection to reintegration into manufacturing processes.

HOW CAN THE LOOPS OF THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY BE OPTIMISED?

THE EXAMPLE OF NON-FERROUS METALS PARTNERS

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Recycling & composting

New products

Consumers Industries

Local authorities

Waste

Foundries and refineries

Treatment of non-recyclable waste

Energy recovery

Collection

Sorting

Bottom ash

Gas Heat

Electricity

SUEZ & PARTNERS

VALOMET

TRANSFORM OUR CORE ACTIVITIES

AN ACCELERATED STRATEGY FOR THE RESOURCE REVOLUTION

Roadbeds Refining

of non-ferrous metals

Dense metals and light metals