Veolia, TotalEnergies to launch major recycling initiative in UAE

Veolia, TotalEnergies to launch major recycling initiative in UAE

UAE - In a significant step towards boosting recycling capacities of the country, French utility major Veolia has forged a new partnership with TotalEnergies Marketing Middle East (TEMME), a unit of global multi-energy company TotalEnergies, to launch its new recycling initiative in UAE.

For the key sustainability initiative, Veolia will be deploying its digital recycling solution Recapp in bid to help TotalEnergies optimize its end-of-life product recovery and recycling process at its TMME service centres, thus enabling the company to contribute positively to the environment.

This collaborative effort will involve recycling of over 40,000 lubricant containers per year through shredding with oil containment separation process, followed by processing, grinding and transforming them into recycled High Density Polyethylene (rHDPE) recycled plastics, ready as secondary raw material produced by eCyclex - a Dubai Municipality approved recycling facility.

This initiative is first-of-its-kind in the automotive industry and aligns with TotalEnergies’ sustainable development approach, it stated.

According to Veolia, it is a pilot project, with plans to extend the concept to a larger array of service centres in the future.

It contributes to global efforts on transformation toward circularity and closing the plastic loop. In particular, it contributes to UAE's efforts to curb plastic pollution. UAE recently launched an