Marathon clean up delivers PB for plastic recycling

This year Veolia’s London Marathon clean up delivered a personal best for recycling, with over 350,000 plastic bottles collected for reprocessing, and seeing the streets in the City of London, Westminster and Tower Hamlets safely reopened within six hours. 

The 26.2 mile race route passed through six London boroughs. Veolia managed the swift clear up operation for three of them, making up the largest portion of the event’s clean up task. 

Veolia cleared all streets north of the River Thames including the City of London, Westminster and Tower Hamlets, where they deliver street cleansing, recycling and waste collections on behalf of the three Local Authorities. 

Across the three locations, Veolia deployed over 40 vehicles and 120 staff and, based on the results from previous years, expects to have cleared over 350,000 plastic bottles from the race course. 

All of the plastic bottles collected for recycling support the delivery of a sustainable solution for the Marathon and a clear win for London’s resources.