Hong Kong - China

In the late 1980s, the Hong Kong Government mapped out long-term municipal solid waste and hazardous waste disposal strategies for the city. Not only was a complete set of control on hazardous waste introduced, but the plan to build an integrated treatment centre of international standards was also drawn up.
A program to phase out old municipal waste facilities and develop cost-effective new facilities of higher operational and environmental standards was also established.
Veolia Environmental Services was selected as one of the few partners for such a challenge.

• Provide quality services throughout the whole waste management chain: operating treatment plants, transfer stations and landfills, waste collection, composting and grease trap waste treatment.
• Increase the recycling and recovery rate of materials (on copper, mercury, landfill gas, food waste, construction waste, metals,wood and paper).
• Innovate in new projects implementing environmental friendly solutions (such as bulk waste reduction through thermal combustion, sludge and medical waste treatment).

• Hazardous waste treatment centre: only facility of its kind in Hong Kong. Major processes being incineration, physical/chemical treatment, oil/water separation and stabilization; offers a one-stop service from sampling, collection, treatment and disposal to emergency services and recovery of usable materials.
• VES also provides uninterrupted services of solid and liquid waste collection to local districts.

• Secured sanitary landfill: with modern systems such as highly impermeable liners, leachate collection and treatment systems; comprehensive gas produce 11,933 MWh of electrical power.
• 2 transfer stations by marine vessels: highly effective processing plants that receive and compact waste into containers; marine vessels reduce the environmental impact of an equivalent of 880 trucks.
• Grease trap waste treatment facility: recovers an alternative fuel, Lipofit®, by industrial boilers and furnaces; reduces the emission of sulfur oxides and landfill loading by minimizing the disposal of grease trap waste; saves fuel cost and flue gas treatment reagent cost.