Hera provides a number of environmental services, ranging from sweeping and waste collection to the provision of various types of ancillary services.

The Hera Group TOS carry out the following main environmental services within the territory:

• City cleaning (manual and mechanized sweeping and cleaning of public grounds, emptying waste bins, cleaning gulleys);
• Unseparated and differentiated waste collection (systems suited to city centers and traffic conditions by using a wide variety of vehicles and equipment);
• Various environmental services (maintenance and management of public parks, urban furnishings, graffiti removal, cleaning buildings and monuments, removal of illegal posters, gulley cleaning, pest and rat extermination);
• Complementary services (management of public lighting systems and traffic lights, funeral and cemetery services, public washroom management, etc.).

Herambiente manages all solid and liquid, urban and special (including hazardous) waste treatment activities, directly or via subsidiaries, through a complex system based on the most modern technologies, such as:

1. Mechanical separation;
2. Selection;
3. Thermal treatment;
4. Composting and biostabilization;
5. Treatment and recovery of special waste;
6. Controlled landfill disposal of unrecovered waste.

The plants and technologies owned by the Hera Group have led it to set up a specific Commercial Network to serve national and foreign manufacturers.

Page updated 22 August 2011