Actions to improve waste sorting and recovery
VINCI’s concessions systematically incorporate social and environmental clauses into contracts with subcontractors and service providers during the tendering phase. Among other stipulations, the clauses require the sorting of waste at source and waste management processes that support the Group’s goals (as implemented by the commercial facilities at motorway service areas, for example). Regulation-compliant reporting processes provide additional detail to ensure the identification and traceability of waste flows across all operating regions. For each identified flow, managers can track progress toward the goal of zero waste to landfill by 2030. Using this information, entities select the service providers that offer the best management of waste, in accordance with the waste processing hierarchy.
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.
As a result, out of a total of 1,207 thousand tonnes of reclaimed asphalt pavement from VINCI Autoroutes’ road maintenance projects, 562 thousand tonnes, or 47%, were recycled directly at VINCI Autoroutes worksites in 2025 (48% in 2024).
Motorway waste
Material recovery from operations waste
VINCI Autoroutes aims to recover 100% of its non-hazardous operations and customer waste from rest areas and service areas by 2030. VINCI Autoroutes has also set a target to recover 80% of non-hazardous operations waste materials, i.e. waste sorted at its operating centres. In 2025, VINCI Autoroutes recovered 81% of material from operations waste (83% in 2024). Waste discarded by customers of the VINCI Autoroutes network has a higher potential for reuse and recycling streams if it is correctly sorted at the source, meaning by the customers themselves. Waste sorting along motorways has improved in recent years: every rest area and service area is now equipped with sets of three bins to separately collect glass, packaging and household waste. Since 2021, the operators of commercial facilities have been required to separate waste into the same three categories, and their performance is monitored by the Commercial Facilities Department.
Airport waste
Percentage of airports with zero waste to landfill
To reach its target of zero waste to landfill across its structures by 2030, VINCI Airports is taking ambitious initiatives to reduce, sort and recover waste across its network. 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 2025, 13 out of 56 airports in the consolidated scope, or 23%, met the zero waste to landfill target (15 out of 59, or 25%, in 2024). Across the entire scope of sites operated by entities in the Concessions business, 21% have reached the zero waste to landfill target.
To reach this target, the entire VINCI Airports value chain, including subcontractors and service providers, will have to work together, by incorporating special provisions on good waste management (collection, sorting, signage, awareness, recovery, etc.) into the environmental clauses mentioned in paragraph 3.2.2.1, “Human rights and health and safety issues for procurement and subcontracting”, page 269. Special measures are being taken to improve the management of cabin waste. In 2025, VINCI Airports continued the collaboration initiated in 2024 with some airlines to develop in-flight waste sorting and thereby reduce cabin waste, which represents 20% to 25% of all waste generated by the airports within its network. In fact, to avoid contamination between countries and in accordance with international health regulations, cabin waste must be incinerated or sent to a landfill. Following the 2024 easing of regulations that categorised waste from international flights as hazardous, a new partnership was initiated with Transavia in mid-2025, involving several of the network’s airports in France, Portugal, Cabo Verde and the United Kingdom. A pilot project prepared at Lyon-Saint Exupéry airport in November 2025 planned to test in-flight waste sorting with Transavia for the first time. Successful waste recovery projects have previously been carried out with the EasyJet airline, involving London Gatwick and Lyon-Saint Exupéry airports, among others.
In 2025, VINCI Airports achieved a waste recovery rate of 76% across all of its activities (67% in 2024). The amount of waste sent to landfill decreased in 2025, representing 19% of waste produced over the year (28% in 2024). 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.
Worksite waste
Recovery of inert waste at VINCI Energies
VINCI Energies has pledged to recover 80% of its inert waste and materials and the Major Projects Division of VINCI Construction has pledged to recover 90% of all its waste, both by 2030. At 31 December 2025, these two divisions achieved a recovery rate for their waste and inert materials of 71% and 94%, respectively (75% and 80% respectively in 2024).