Antoine Frérot at the COP26: “We will not achieve carbon neutrality without increasing our R&D efforts”

• The use ofrecycled plastic to make a plastic bottle emits 70% less greenhouse gases than with virgin raw materials. And Veolia decided several years ago to multiply its plastic recycling capacities by 5.
• Veolia is going to capture the methane emitted by all its landfills around the world by transforming it into biogas, a renewable energy. In Brazil, the Group has just inaugurated 3 new power plants using landfill biogas as a primary energy source.
• Veolia is stepping up its innovation efforts in the field of recyclingelectric vehicle batteries, because these end-of-life batteries contain valuable raw materials. The group will soon be able to recycle 100% of the metals from used batteries. It already extracts "ultra pure lithium" from them, in the form of lithium carbonate.