The Var has about a hundred environmental businesses that specialise in waste processing and recycling, air and water purification, the manufacturing green products, risk analysis etc. They form a web of innovative SMEs and SMIs.
- There are about one hundred companies in the Var whose core business is the environment, almost one out every four companies in the region, and more than twice that ratio in related lines of business.
- The economic fabric in the Toulon area has close ties with the sea, defence and state-of-the-art technologies – knowledge areas that can be applied to the environmental sector.
- Operators based in the Var that are of national if not international importance (CNIM, Pizzorno …).
- Many innovating SMEs and engineering offices.