Integrated waste management

The Herambiente Group is the waste treatment leader in Italy. Its role has been consolidated over the years thanks to our companies that operate on the Italian and international market, able to effectively treat all types of waste. We offer our customers custom packages to meet all of their requirements, such as integrated environmental services or the planning and execution of reclamations of contaminated sites, in this way contributing to the protection of the environment, and of the health and safety of workers and citizens. 
 

Responsibility for the environment. The responsibility environment
 

Herambiente’s experience allows us to play a leadership role for a path leading to the circular economy, with the objective of pursuing standards of efficiency and profitability, and high percentages of recycling and recovery of material and energy. To do this, we make available innovation, skills and plants that are distinguished by their reliability, state-of-the art technologies and high environmental performance.

Our strategy is centred on the integration of the various sectors along the value chain. Over the years, Herambiente has evolved while continuing to pay attention to efficiency, while aiming at integrating people in the different business lines, at digitisation, while encouraging innovation and the sharing of knowledge, and while promoting process and design synergies. (I would wait for the final text on the new mission for this part).
 

The ecological transition represent a huge opportunity and Herambiente is already at wok on this, looking for new solutions guaranteeing greater sustainability.

Watch the video with the testimonies of those who work to help have a cleaner world.

Our services for companies:
 

• Herambiente Industrial Services: we are a company dedicated to the environmental needs of companies, and thanks to our increasingly efficient processes, we are a single partner from waste collection to its treatment. We make available to companies fully customized solutions, such as turn-key services for managing industrial waste, in order to find the most advantageous destination for each waste in full compliance with the complex environmental legislation.
• Reclamation service: thanks to our consolidated know-how and high standards of quality and safety, we guarantee advice and services that are always attentive to environmental sustainability, such as customized analyses to find economically efficient solutions. Our engineers following the reclamation and decontamination projects from the very beginning, providing a range of services for the environment such as characterisation and design, reclamation and implementation of safety measures technologies, and environmental due diligence.
• Aliplast: we are the first Italian company to manage the entire plastic cycle in-house. By customizing products, we can guarantee a complete service, from the pick-up of plastic waste and transportation up to its transformation into a reusable material.
• Utilities market:we manage the entire recovery chain for waste deriving from separate collection, as well as the treatment of UNDIFFERENTIATED and special urban waste.

Do you want a customized solution for your company? Learn about our services on the Herambiente website (enter link → http://ha.gruppohera.it/).

Our Waste Management System (SGR) features the following main services:
 

The different collection solutions
 

• Area collections: addressed to household users and small non-household users, they are widespread throughout the area and can be made through: 
  • roadside containers
  • door to door collections at the homes of citizens who, equipped with a separate waste collection kit supplied by Hera, put out their waste on pre-established days and times based on a calendar.
• Home collections at “target” users: are addressed to non-household users that produce specific waste similar to urban waste (e.g. cardboard in stores, glass or cans in coffee bars, organic waste in canteens and restaurants...);
• Separate Waste Collection Centres: also known as Ecological Stations, are infrastructures present in almost all municipalities Hera serves that complete the service offered to citizens to deliver their urban waste separately. Citizens can deliver a wide range of categories of urban waste (also determined hazardous waste), in addition to delivering bulky and heavy waste, to these centres. In some towns, also innovative infrastructures such as the Ecomobile furniture collection centres and the Ecoself self-service collection points are active. A discount system that rewards delivery of various categories of separated waste is also contemplated. 
• Roadside collection: this service is supplied using Basic Ecological Islands, i.e. roadside containers divided by chain (unseparated, organic, plastic, paper, glass) or Underground Ecological Islands. The opening of the containers in some areas might require the use of the “emerald card”. 
• On-call service: with the home pick-up service, free of charge on call and by appointment, citizens can get rid of bulky and green waste. 
• Collection at businesses: this service entails collecting several types of hazardous waste such as batteries and drugs from specific businesses. We are also progressively promoting roadside collection and collection at shopping malls of WEEE (waste from electrical and electronic equipment) and exhausted vegetable oils.
   

Road sweeping and cleaning
 

The cleaning of the public areas and spaces of towns is another important activity that guarantees urban decor. We follow pre-established schedules on the basis of Municipal Service Agreements or on the basis of reports received from citizens, in this way ensuring a different frequency and quick intervention based on the local area needs.

We also provide complementary services in order to guarantee maintenance works in the most important areas with the highest traffic or interventions coinciding with cultural and sports events.
 

Urban waste disposal
 

We are the leading operator in Italy for waste treatment and we devote ourselves to promoting the efforts put forth by the citizens in separate waste collection as best we can. An important part of our integrated waste management process is represented by the complex plant system of Herambiente. All waste collected on the territory is first taken to a selection centre in order to improve it in terms of quality and to separate its scraps, then it is sent to the recovery platforms or to the treatment or disposal platforms if it is not recoverable. To learn more about it, visit the Herambiente website.

In 2017 Herambiente's strong propensity for the circular economy and environmental protection led it to acquire Aliplast, a centre of excellence in Italy in the recycling of plastic waste.

With a single common goal: to make the plastic cycle as sustainable as possible, maximising customer satisfaction.

we are the first Italian company to manage the entire plastic cycle internally. Thanks to a customisation of our products, we guarantee a complete service, from the collection of plastic waste, to transport, up to the transformation into new reusable material. Thirty years of experience working alongside producer companies allows us to guarantee a complete service, from the collection of plastic waste, to transport, up to the transformation into new recycled products with high standards of quality and performance on a par with virgin products.

Aliplast's targets
 

Aliplast serves customers in many fields: food, cosmetics and detergents, furniture, automotive, construction, household appliances, and paper, and identifies the perfect product, through its internal laboratory and its R&D technical staff, pursuing precise objectives:

• studying the most suitable materials and processes to perfectly customize the products;
• developing new products with specific technical characteristics for particular uses;
• researching and defining product innovations and technologies aimed at improving sustainability performance.

By doing so, it gives our customers reliable and integrated solutions that complete and close the sustainability loop: from the collection and recovery of plastic waste from production waste and scrap to the regeneration of new plastic products that have nothing less than the original raw material.

Go to Aliplast website