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Water, waste collection and recycling services are part of what makes cities attractive they expect a high-quality service with a positive impact on the environment, generating savings and rooted in the local community. They aspire to become resourceful cities. SUEZ is evolving its range of solutions to support their environmental transition.

Reducing the nuisance associated with waste collection was one of Rennes Métropole's objectives when it renewed its contract with SUEZ to collect household waste from its 420,000 residents. A first for France, the metropolitan council switched its entire fleet of waste collection vehicles to natural gas on 1 January 2018, with two benefits; reducing both air pollution and noise pollution. As well as being greener, waste collection will be more intelligent, as SUEZ will deploy its "smart truck". Equipped with sensors and on-board information systems, this new-generation collection truck will be able to measure the city's air quality and conduct thermal imaging, collecting data in real time to optimise collection routes. Waste recovery with a positive

environmental impact is an ambition for many of the local authorities who choose SUEZ. Near Toulouse, the Econotre eco-centre has equipped itself with an innovative heating network to heat agricultural greenhouses with renewable energy produced by incinerating waste.

In the Sydney metropolitan region, the contract won by SUEZ will involve turning household waste into recycled and organic materials, avoiding annual emissions of 43,000 tonnes of CO2 over the next ten years. In Belgrade, the SUEZ-ITOCHU consortium is upgrading the Serbian capital to European waste standards a waste-to-energy plant will replace one of the largest landfill sites still in operation in Europe.

OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES

FOR THE BENEFIT

A PERFORMANCE THAT CONTRIBUTES IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST