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FCC
to manage waste in Houston (USA)
for 5 years and 30 million euros
FCC Environmental Services, the Group’s
Environmental Services subsidiary in the
United States, has signed an agreement
with the Houston, Texas, City Council in-
volving delivery for final treatment of all the
biosolids or sewage sludge produced by
the city and the neighbouring counties over
the next 5 years.
Houston is the fourth largest city in popu-
lation in the United States and a major hub
worldwide for the oil, energy, medical and
aerospace sectors. The contract will provi-
de service to 2 million people residing in this
Texan city and the surrounding area.
In order to provide the services, a fleet of 20
trucks and 40 trailers and tanks will be used
to manage between 25,000 and 45,000
tons of biosolids produced each year in the
city over the next five years, for a sum of
approximately 30 million euros.
This contract with the Houston City Council
is the Citizen Services Group’s first after the
sale in mid-October of its used industrial
oil collection and recycling business in the
USA to the local company, Heritage-Crystal
Clean, for a total of 70 million euros.
The FCC Group’s remaining environmental
businesses and activities in the USA, such
as the collection, recycling and treatment
of solid urban waste, industrial waste ma-
nagement, treatment of waste from oil and
gas production and exploration proces-
ses, ground decontamination and other
environmental services, have been grou-
ped under FCC Environmental Services.
Through this new company, the Citizen
Services Group aims to focus its envi-
ronmental business in the United States,
where it provides industrial waste mana-
gement and recycling services.
FCC Group’s environmental
business in the U.S.
Before the recent sale of its used indus-
trial oil collection and recycling business to
Heritage-Crystal Clean, FCC Environmental
had revenues of approximately130 million
euros and a workforce of around 500 em-
ployees.