Environnement and Solutions

What Environnement and Solutions does

Environnement & Solutions (E&S) is a Nantes-based French consulting firm founded in 2003 that provides specialized advisory services to public and private sector clients in waste management. The company operates exclusively through professional services engagement, with no proprietary software or technology product. Its offerings are organized into three integrated modules: strategic studies (Études), public and private procurement assistance (AMO passation de marchés), and operational audits with optimization (Audit et optimisation). Study work covers collection optimization, financing models, waste prevention programs, and information systems; AMO work supports drafting consultation documents and evaluating candidate submissions, with a stated track record of zero procedure cancellations; audit work covers contract execution control, compliance audits, waste stream characterization, and collection circuit design.

The firm's primary client segments are territorial authorities (collectivités territoriales), industrial companies, industry filières, and éco-organismes. Named clients include Nantes Métropole, Saint-Lô Agglomération, Centre-Val de Loire, Haut-Poitou, and CCA. The company is incorporated as a SARL with 30,000€ share capital, is founder-controlled under Director Julien Cardineau, and maintains a 4-person operational team. Its go-to-market is direct, relationship-based B2B sales into French public procurement markets, relying on nearly 20 years of accumulated credentials and a stated independence from waste service providers and equipment suppliers.

E&S reports no external funding, no M&A activity, and no technology platform. Its principal commercial asset is its procurement-law and waste-operations expertise, which is delivered through project-based consulting contracts. Geographic footprint is concentrated in the Pays de la Loire region with some clients in Normandy and Centre-Val de Loire, and the firm has no visible digital or AI-driven service delivery.

Name

Environnement and Solutions

Legal name

SARL ENVIRONNEMENT & SOLUTIONS

Website

https://environnement-solutions.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Environnement & Solutions is a Nantes-based French consulting firm, founded in 2003, that provides waste management advisory services — strategic studies, public procurement assistance, and operational audits — to territorial authorities, industrial companies, and éco-organismes across France.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Environmental Consulting

NAICS

Environmental Consulting Services (541620)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAHAJAA

Environmental Compliance & Permitting

Business & Public Services/Professional Services (Legal, Accounting, Consulting)/Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Consulting

SECONDARYEUAIANAH

Circularity Consulting & Program Management (EPR, Design-for-Circularity, LCA)

Energy, Utilities & Environment/Environmental Services (Waste Management, Recycling & Remediation)/Resource Recovery & Circular Economy Services (Reuse, Take-back, Refurbishment)

SECONDARYBPAHAJAG

EHS Auditing, Inspections & Assurance

Business & Public Services/Professional Services (Legal, Accounting, Consulting)/Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Consulting

SECONDARYBPAHACAK

Sustainability & ESG Consulting

Business & Public Services/Professional Services (Legal, Accounting, Consulting)/Management Consulting

Keywords

• Waste management consulting
• Public procurement assistance
• Operational audit services
• Environmental engineering
• AMO consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Nantes

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Professional Consulting Services: Project-based consulting engagements for waste management studies, public procurement assistance (AMO), and operational audits. Services are tailored to each client and appear to be delivered through direct contracts with public and private sector entities.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Environnement & Solutions is a French consulting firm that advises territorial authorities, industrial companies, eco-organisms, and waste sector filières on defining and implementing their waste management policies. Its core offerings consist of three integrated consulting modules: strategic studies (Études), public/private procurement assistance (AMO), and operational audits with optimization (Audit et Optimisation), delivered on a project basis through direct contracts.

Product overview

Environnement & Solutions (E&S) operates as a consulting firm offering three integrated service modules for waste management: strategic studies (Études), public procurement assistance (AMO), and operational audits with optimization services (Audit et Optimisation). These services work together to provide local authorities and industrial clients with end-to-end waste management consulting, from diagnostic analysis and strategic planning through procurement execution to operational performance review. The company has operated since 2003 serving public and private sector clients.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Études (Studies) Main consulting activity involving diagnostic analysis and feasibility studies for waste management strategy, including collection optimization, financing models, waste prevention programs, and information systems. Delivered to local authorities and industrial clients in full independence from service providers and equipment suppliers.
• AMO Passation de marchés (Public & Private Procurement Assistance) Public and private procurement assistance service supporting local authorities and industrial clients in drafting consultation documents and analyzing candidate submissions, with a documented track record of zero procedure cancellations and one rejected legal challenge in 12 years of AMO work.
• Audit et Optimisation Operational audit services including contract execution control, collection service compliance audits, regulatory compliance audits of waste collection centres, waste stream characterization campaigns (OMr, Emballages, Tout-venant), analysis of sector performances (VHU, DEEE, etc.), and collection circuit design and optimization.

Quantifiable outcome

• Zero procedure cancellations in 20 years of public procurement assistance
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Inddigo: French consultancy specialised in sustainable territorial development — circular economy, waste, and energy transition — for local authorities and eco-organisms across France; the closest size-and-niche peer to E&S in terms of public-sector environmental advisory.
• B&L Evolution: French environmental and CSR consultancy working with both public authorities and private companies on waste prevention, circular economy, and compliance assignments — directly comparable niche and segment overlap with E&S in French territory-based waste advisory.
• Verdier (Cabinet Verdier): Long-standing French consultancy specialised in public waste-services procurement and contract governance (AMO, DSP/contrat de concession support) for collectivités — the closest direct functional peer to E&S's AMO Passation de marchés service, operating at a similar size and on the same type of contracts.

Broad incumbents

• Apave: French risk-management and technical-contingent firm offering EHS consulting (environmental, occupational health, safety) to public and industrial clients — comparable because it serves similar French collectivités and industrial sites with environmental and regulatory advisory mandates.
• SOCOTEC: Large French testing, inspection and certification group (which absorbed Ginger Environnement) providing environmental compliance, site characterisation and waste-related advisory services to territorial authorities — overlaps with E&S's audit and compliance mandate work but at much greater scale and across many more service lines.
• Bureau Veritas: Global TIC and ESG services group with established environmental consulting and compliance practices in France — competes for the same public-sector and industrial environmental-advisory mandates E&S serves but with a much broader portfolio including certification, asset integrity, and ESG advisory.

Emerging players

• GreenFlex: French sustainability and environmental services company providing consulting and digital platforms for energy, waste and CSR performance — overlaps with E&S on waste-related strategy and diagnostics for both private and public-sector clients, scaled up by a software/data layer.
• Carbone 4: Independent French climate strategy consultancy advising corporates, investors and public bodies on decarbonisation, adaptation and environmental strategy — comparable to E&S for the upstream 'Études' / strategy work on waste and circular-economy policy.
• Ecoact: Paris-based carbon, climate and environmental consulting firm (now part of ENGIE) supporting French and European organisations on climate strategy, GHG accounting and transition planning — overlaps with the policy/strategy 'Études' arm of E&S and increasingly with circular-economy advisory for corporate and territorial clients.

Others

• SUEZ Consulting: The consulting/engineering arm of SUEZ serving public and industrial clients on water, waste and circular-economy projects — overlaps with E&S's territory advisory but is structurally conflicted on operator-independence (which E&S brands as a differentiator).

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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