In this year 2023, the European Heritage Days put at the heart of their 40th edition, the promotion of "Living Heritage". And at the same time, Veolia is celebrating 170 years of history.
Two reasons to open our sites (sorting or energy recovery centers, drinking water production plants, wastewater treatment plants etc.) that belong to our industrial and ecological heritage, where knowledge and knowledgeto protect the environment are passed on from one generation to another.
By visiting these unknown and even unsuspected places, immerse yourself in their history and, more broadly, in the history of the environment. A history that has written itself, at the same time as our modern societies have formed since the Second Industrial Revolution.
In Ventavon, in the Hautes-Alpes, the Ecopôle du Beynon includes a Non-hazardous Waste Storage Facility (ISDND) and a sorting centre.
The site produces green energy through biogas recovered through the storage and degradation of ultimate waste. Transported to a recovery platform, biogas is transformed to supply 3,800 inhabitants with electricity each year.