SITA Waste Services Ltd
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Company History: Formed in 1987, the company was initially a joint venture between the American waste management leader Browning Ferries Industries (BFI) and Swire Pacific Limited.
Due to the acquisition of BFI’s non-American subsidiaries by SITA in 1997, SITA took over BFI’s shareholding in the joint-venture, the name of which became Swire SITA.
Since its entry into the Hong Kong market in 1987, Swire SITA has expanded steadily to become Hong Kong’s foremost waste services company.
In 2009, the SITA Waste Services Limited became wholly owned by SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT, the largest dedicated environmental company in the world.
Background: SITA Waste Services Limited is a subsidiary of SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT. With 80,000 employees and a worldwide presence, SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT is a world leader exclusively dedicated to water and waste management services.
SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT and its subsidiaries are committed to the daily challenge of protecting resources and ecosystems. The company provides innovative solutions to millions of people and industries in the drinking water, wastewater treatment and waste management fields.
In the water sector, SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT’s operations include:
- the catchment, treatment and distribution of drinking water,
- the collection and purification of domestic and industrial water,
- the biological and energy development of waste resulting from purification.
In the waste sector, SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT ensures:
- collection of all kinds of waste (apart from radioactive waste),
- selection and preliminary treatment of waste,
- recycling, material, biological and energy recovery of recoverable waste and elimination of residual waste by incineration or landfill.
In 2012, SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT attained revenues of € 15.1 billion and devoted €74 million to R&D.
Hong Kong is one of the leading cities in the world with a well thought-out master plan and coherently implemented infrastructure to manage its solid waste. It has proven to be not only cost-effective but also environmentally responsible for future generations.
Back in the early 1980’s, the Hong Kong Government started working on planning long-term for the city’s future waste disposal strategies in response to the ever increasing volume of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) generated everyday. The Waste Disposal Plan, eventually approved in 1989, is essentially an inter-woven network consisting of three very large landfills located in the remote areas of the New Territories being fed by a series of refuse transfer stations strategically located within the centres of population where MSW is generated.
The Waste Disposal Plan developed in the 1980’s has served Hong Kong well. However circumstances change, population increases necessitating the evolution of the Waste Disposal Plan to include Waste to Energy, Mechanical & Biological Treatment etc.
Activities: SITA provides a complete waste management service, including municipal, commercial and industrial waste collection, urban cleansing, transfer station design, construction and operation, the production and marketing of compost, waste sorting and recovery, the design, construction and operation of state-of-the-art landfill facilities, waste-to-energy operations and the restoration and aftercare of closed landfills.
In Hong Kong, SITA operates six solid waste transfer stations, two of the three strategic sanitary landfills (WENT and NENT, both among the largest landfills in the world), and seven restored landfills. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary Waylung Waste Services Limited, SITA is a major player in waste collection, street cleansing and composting.
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Collection: Every year, SITA collects more than 400,000 tonnes of waste from municipalities, commercial and industrial facilities and farms in Hong Kong and Macao.
With more than 26 years’ experience in the collection and transportation of solid and liquid waste, we provide services to meet the specific needs of our clients. To keep our fleet in the best order possible, we have our own maintenance workshops at our transfer stations and at our collection depots, where the vehicles we own or operate are regularly maintained, repaired, painted and cleaned.
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