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| Urbaser to take part in waste management business in Paris The city of Paris and the surrounding towns have awarded a 425 million euro contract to Urbaser for the management of urban waste over the next twelve years. The company, dedicated to logistics and the environment within Spanish construction firm ACS, becomes the first foreign company to take part in the waste management business in the French capital and its surroundings. To this end, Urbaser will build a new urban waste processing plant in Paris, to be located in the Romainville district, which will be among the most modern facilities in Europe. This facility will be responsible for the processing of nearly one fourth of the waste generated in the French capital and its surroundings, corresponding to the 'output' of over one million people. Given that it is located in the heart of the city, the plant design will be highly innovative and it will be fully integrated by means of vegetable roofing that will cover the plant almost entirely, and it will also feature an avant-garde architectural approach. The waste will arrive at the facilities via trucks, railway and river barges — the plant will have its own railway station and pier adjacent to a channel on the Seine. The plant will process over 400,000 tons of solid urban waste a year and it will be finished in 2011. Until it is completed and operations begin, Urbaser will manage waste from Paris and the surrounding areas by using existing facilities as from 1st June 2008. Urbaser has also been awarded a 20-year concession for the construction and operation of a future waste processing plant on the island of Guadeloupe in the French Antilles. The contract is worth 590 million euros. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Construction News :: home page |