For more than 150 years, SUEZ has helped cities and industrials in managing the water cycle and in collecting and reusing waste. Located
at the crossroads of water and waste challenges, SUEZ today uses its expertise to serve local public policies that limit pollution of the marine
environment by human activity in coastal areas.

Thanks to its overall vision, SUEZ can supply its customers with tangible solutions that limit terrestrial sources of pollution by changing our
conception of the waste life cycle to a more circular model, by making the cities wastewater networks intelligent, and by developping new wastewater treatment technologies adapted to the sensitivity of oceanic receiving body.

Among all the sources of ocean pollution, plastic pollution is especially worrisome. That's why in its 2017-2021 Sustainable Development Roadmap, as a part of its commitment "Acting for the health of the environment and the protection of the oceans", SUEZ committed to speed up the rollout of integrated and collaborative approaches designed to significantly reduce the disposal of plastics at sea (2021 target : 20 local integrated approaches implemented), a well as to offer to its customers solutions to treat micrplastics in wastewater before it is discharged into the sea (2021 target : treatment of 1 million person-equivalent of wastewater with adapted treatment solutions).

SUEZ is also convinced that building water and waste innovative management methods aiming to protect the marine environment demands
collective action based on open attitudes, experiments, the crossing fertilization of expertise and education. That's why SUEZ is engaged in several partnership with international organizations (UNECO-IOC), academics and NGO in order to co-construct and disseminate best practices and best available solutions to reduce the environmental impact of the coastal areas to the oceans.