Veolia Environmental Services
Polar Operations, Specialised Equipment and Services, Transport and Logistics
Mark Stalker
Veolia is the global leader in water, waste and energy management solutions contributing to the sustainable development of community and industry.
Veolia currently provides innovative total waste management solutions for waste returning from Antarctica and subantarctic regions to the highest environmental standards. Veolia ANZ is committed to the preservation and clean-up of Antarctica, having donated 240 specialised containers to the Australian Antarctic Division and provided specialist resource support to clean up legacy waste deposited in Antarctica.
Veolia’s Gavin Allen has had several tours to Antarctica, repurposing and recommissioning a mobile water treatment plant to treat diesel contaminated snow and leachate from sediments. Gavin worked with a team from the Australian Antarctic Division and the University of Melbourne to commission, operate and monitor the water treatment process. The team successfully started up and operated the treatment plant and the plant is still in use and successfully treating water during the summer months.
The services available to the international Antarctic community includes:
- Biosecurity waste
- Solid waste
- Liquid waste
- Recycling
- Resource recovery
- Hazardous waste
Veolia facilitates the collection, treatment and disposal of biosecurity, solid, liquid and hazardous waste and recyclables, Veolia aims to maximise the diversion of waste from landfill into beneficial reuse.
