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collection vehicle fleet owned by the city of Houston will carry the mixed recyclablematerials from the selective collection bins to the FCC facilities that will process and commercialise the entire city’s recyclables exclusively. The Houston contract will enable the Group to continue to take firm steps towards consolidating its project ai- med at expanding its services activity in North America and to take advan- tage of its more than 115 years’ expe- rience in the environmental services sector worldwide. The U.S., a market for FCC Environmental Services FCC is present in the United States through FCC Environmental Services, the Group’s environmental services subsidiary in that country, which covers the businesses and services of the co- llection of rubbish, recycling and treat- ment of solid urban wastes, handling of industrial wastes, treatment of wastes from petroleum and gas production and exploration, soil decontamination and other environmental services. For FCC Environment the USA is a growing market and is consolidating as one of the main markets on which this company is focusing and in which it has occupied an outstanding place in a short time. The FCC Group’s environmental servi- ces area has won important contracts in recent years. The first contracts achieved in Texas were the transport of bio-solid wastes in the city of Hous- ton, the construction and management of the new Materials Recycling Plant (MRF) in the McCommas Bluff Lan- dfill facilities south of Dallas and the treatment and commercialising of all the recyclable materials for the city of University Park. In 2017, the company won three new contracts in Texas, in the cities of Mesquite, Garland and Rowle- tt. FCC also won two contracts for the collection of solid urban municipal was- tes in Polk County and Orange County, both in the state of Florida. environment Model of the future recycling plant in Houston. The plant plans to treat 120,000 tons per year, although it can reach a maximum capacity of 145,000. B U S I N E S S 22 B U S I N E S S