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Veolia, global leader in optimised resource management, joins the Toilet Board Coalition! 
MEDIA RELEASE
30 April 2018
Veolia joins the Toilet Board Coalition bringing expertise on Circular Sanitation & Smart City Business Solutions
The Toilet Board Coalition (TBC), the world’s first business-led platform focused on accelerating the Sanitation Economy, welcomes Veolia, global leader in optimised resource management, to its membership. Veolia joins founding TBC companies Unilever, Kimberly-Clark, LIXIL, Firmenich and Tata as the first water, waste and energy management solutions company in the Coalition.
In response to the new addition, Toilet Board Coalition Chairman and Unilever Global Vice-President Household Cleaning Brands, Mr. Charlie Beevor said ”Veolia fills an important role within the TBC as a leader in circular economy waste management and smart city solutions. Toilet economy innovations need smart waste management solutions to enable system transformation. I am delighted that Veolia is joining us, bringing their business leadership in this important area.”
Veolia group is the global leader in optimised resource management. With nearly 169’000 employees worldwide, the Group designs and provides water, waste and energy management solutions that contribute to the sustainable development of communities and industries. Through its three complementary business activities, Veolia helps to develop access to resources, preserve available resources, and to replenish them.
In 2017, the Veolia group supplied 96 million people with drinking water and 62 million people with wastewater service, produced nearly 55 million megawatt hours of energy and converted 47 million metric tons of waste into new materials and energy. Veolia Environnement (listed on Paris Euronext: VIE) recorded consolidated revenue of €25.12 billion in 2017(USD 30.1 billion).
The Toilet Board Coalition welcomes the appointment of Laurent Auguste, Veolia Senior Executive Vice President, Development, Innovation & Markets to the Steering Committee.
“Veolia is honoured to join the TBC that we recognise as a true pioneer in creating a very innovative dynamic to address the major social and environmental challenge of sanitation by facilitating the emergence of local entrepreneurial initiatives. We are committed to fully leverage our skills, know-how and business network to lead to the needed scaling up of these initiatives to reach the shared ambition of bringing a major contribution in tackling the sanitation crisis.” Laurent Auguste, Veolia Senior Executive Vice President, Development, Innovation & Markets
The TBC is a business led public-private partnership. Its members are multinational corporations, development expert NGOs / IGOs and social investors?- ?all dedicated to enabling smart, sustainable sanitation systems for the future that deliver sanitation to all. In 2016 the TBC launched the Toilet Accelerator, the first accelerator programme dedicated to supporting sanitation entrepreneurs in low-income markets to help catalyse new business solutions and innovations.
In 2017, the Toilet Board Coalition introduced the opportunity of the Sanitation Economy, a future marketplace of untapped business potential helping to tackle the global sanitation crisis, and has assembled growing evidence of significant new benefits for business and society across sectors – an estimated $62 billion opportunity by 2021 in India alone.
The Sanitation Economy not only provides sanitation, enables education, and facilitates better workplaces for women, but it creates a biological resource system and a new source of information about human health and behaviour. A consistent flow of new resources that can be transformed into energy, animal feed, organic fertilisers that capture nutrients, data, and health information.
“The Circular Sanitation Economy is an enormous opportunity to drive value from sanitation systems and to provide solutions for the world’s resource constraints such as water and nutrients. We are so pleased to welcome Veolia, a global expert and leader, with the joint goal to accelerate these opportunities which we believe hold significant benefits for business and society.“ Cheryl Hicks, Toilet Board Coalition Executive Director & CEO