The Port of Lille is as well a public organisation, anxious to gain economic development in order to keep the well-being of the population and interested in the environmental protection.

For this reason, it is implicated in several subjects of general interest. Among this we find the transport service by inland waterway of the products from the die valorization, which is often quoted as an example in France and Europe. This transport we are talking about is in charge of the products to be recycled as well as household refuses, used glass collected by selective sorting, and the IWB (industrial waste banals).

Since 1999, the Port of Lille had demonstrated the importance of waterways in the transportation of products to be recycled, all this in the greatest benefit of the environment.