Ligue 1 Conforama: Veolia, "environmental partner" of Olympique Lyonnais for 2020-2022

Veolia, a French multinational company specialised in public services (water, waste, energy), has extended its partnership with Olympique Lyonnais (Ligue 1 Conforama) to become the club's "environmental partner" for two seasons from 2020-21 (2020-2022), announced the club on 04/06/2020, on the eve of World Environment Day.

"Becoming the club's official 'environmental partner' means working together to build and deploy an ambitious programme of resource conservation and ecodesign, of reuse and recycling. This collaboration will make OL one of the very first football clubs to undertake such a comprehensive environmental programme," explained the club which is reinforcing its CSR strategy.

As part of the agreement, Veolia and OL are presenting a training T-shirt made of 100% recycled material, manufactured in the Rhône-Alpes (FRA) region (see below). This is not the official training shirt for OL's professional teams, which is still produced by adidas, but an shirt to be marketed by the club in 2020-21. "Players on the club's teams will also be given individual water bottles made of…