Programme management at concessions
45% of reclaimed asphalt pavement reused at VINCI Autoroutes worksites each year 
VINCI Autoroutes’ goal to recover 100% of asphalt and aggregates from removed pavement materials on its networks and reuse at least 45% of it at its own worksites each year is routinely integrated into any bids it submits for motorway maintenance contracts. Reclaimed asphalt pavement not reused directly at the worksite is tracked and companies are required to systematically commit to ensuring that 100% of it is incorporated into new asphalt for use outside the VINCI Autoroutes business line. As a result, out of a total of 1,153,000 tonnes of reclaimed asphalt pavement from VINCI Autoroutes’ road renovation projects, 558,000 tonnes, or more than 48%, were recycled directly at VINCI Autoroutes worksites in 2024.
VINCI Concessions has also implemented similar initiatives. As part of a major programme to modernise the entire length of the Via Pribina expressway in Slovakia, the top layer of pavement was replaced with new asphalt. All 40,000 tonnes of the removed asphalt was recovered and recycled by local plants.
Motorway waste
Material recovery from operations waste
VINCI Autoroutes aims to recover 80% of operations waste (non-hazardous waste, inert waste and soil) by 2030. To support this goal, 100% of rest areas and service areas in the network are equipped with bins to sort packaging and household waste. In 2024, VINCI Autoroutes recovered 83% of material from operations waste. To avoid food waste, redistribution solutions from the companies Too Good To Go and Phenix were rolled out at 120 service areas on the network, saving over 29,000 baskets in 2024.
Further strengthening its commitment, VINCI Autoroutes is working together with the operators of commercial facilities at service areas across its network toward the shared goal of zero waste. In particular, these VINCI Autoroutes partners have pledged to implement actions and test solutions that promote the circular economy and reduce waste, classified into three levels of engagement (engaged, expert or outstanding), such as setting up dry bulk dispensers, and composters or bio-digesters to recover organic waste.
VINCI Autoroutes has worked with the environmental organisation Citeo since 2022 to improve waste sorting outside of the home. Escota was selected by Citeo’s call for expression of interest in out-of-home waste. In 2023, VINCI Autoroutes and Citeo jointly organised a day of dialogue and experience-sharing on sorting solutions for mobility users, and their collaboration continued in 2024.
Airport waste
Number of airports with zero waste to landfill
To reach its target of zero waste to landfill across its airports by 2030, VINCI Concessions is taking ambitious initiatives to reduce, sort and recycle waste from its airport concessions. The main areas of focus for this action are: reducing waste at source, optimising waste sorting and collection by investing in on-site sorting centres, identifying and expanding local recycling streams, and increasing the share of material recovery over energy recovery. In 2024, 15 out of 59 airports in the consolidated scope, or 25%, met the zero waste to landfill target.
To achieve this goal, VINCI Airports works with its value chain, including subcontractors and service providers, and includes environmental clauses in its contracts with them. This measure was successfully tested at Santiago airport in Chile and at the continental airports in Portugal, with additional trials under way in France and Brazil. In 2024, VINCI Airports achieved a waste recovery rate of 67% across all of its activities. In regions without formal waste sorting and recovery systems, VINCI Airports is adopting an inclusive recycling approach that involves creating decent and sustainable jobs in the informal sector, among the existing communities of waste pickers.
Special measures are being taken to improve the management of cabin waste. VINCI Airports is working with some airlines to improve waste sorting in the aircraft, to facilitate the recovery of recyclable materials. In 2023, VINCI Airports signed a joint statement with the IATA, the IFSA, the ACI and other organisations, as well as several airline companies and airport groups, to revise legislation obliging airlines to treat waste from international flights as hazardous. The current regulation requires the waste to be incinerated or buried, even if it contains recoverable material. Following the statement, in September 2024, the European Commission Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety announced that “waste that does not contain remnants of products of animal origin (in this case, animal by-products), has not been contaminated by such products, and is collected and stored separately from international catering waste, falls out of the scope of the rules applying to animal by-products.” Similar initiatives are being taken outside of the European Union. In Serbia, Belgrade airport has also obtained confirmation from the relevant ministry that the recovery and recycling of cabin waste sorted at source is acceptable to them. As a result, recycling of cabin waste will begin in the coming months. This regulatory change will enable VINCI Concessions to recover up to 20% additional materials (from cabin waste) in the years to come.
At Lyon-Saint Exupéry airport, 33 tonnes of waste from the airline easyJet has been collected and fully recovered, of which 86% was recycled in 2024.