The second Green Dot Industry Awards were given to winning projects in December 2015. The aim of the awards is to inform the public of the works of the “Green Dot” members, whose numbers in Turkey are increasing day by day, on their exemplary efforts beyond their legal responsibilities regarding recyling, and to encourage other firms engaged in similar activities.
We talked to the winners and asked them about their award winning projects and their future goals. We congratulate our firms and leave them to present their projects themselves….
Winners of the 2015 Green Dot Industry Awards!
“Environmental Social Responsibility Applications” Category
- Akçansa, with the Project “Children Recycling Tomorrow"
- Boyner, with “Recycle for Good” Project,
- and Tetra Pak, with the Project “Little Things Renew Nature”
“Prevention Applications by Decreasing Resources Utilised in Packaging Design” Category
- Frito Lay
- Nestle Waters
“Waste Management System and Applications” CategoryFrito Lay,
- Procter& Gamble
- Unilever
AKÇANSA
Environmental Social Responsibility Category / 2015 Green Dot Industry Award
Mining fields given back to nature
As Akçansa, we carry out all our activities with respect towards the environment and the public, we aim to provide a safer and prosperous future by improving the life quality of the society we are living in. With our projects “Children Recycling Tomorrow” and “Biodiversity”, which reflect our environmental concern, we were awarded the Green Dot Industry Award in the category of Environmental Social Responsibility Applications.
Working in collaboration with ÇEVKO Foundation and the Büyükçekmece Municipality, we prepared our project "Children Recycling Tomorrow" for 4th grade students in order to inform and educate the children on how to seperate waste at its source, on recycling, and obtaining energy from waste, and on ways to use resources consciously for a sustainable world. We approached almost 3000 students from 15 schools with educational workshops by 24 volunteers from Akçansa. With the “Biodiversity” Project contest organised for the first time in Turkey in 2014 by Heidelberg Cement, one of the partners of our company, we aimed to increase biological diversity on mining fields. The purpose of the project was to give back to nature the land and natural wild life while production still continued on mining fields and also after it finished, with creative, different, and innovative projects; to increase and improve biological diversity on such areas.
BOYNER
Environmental Social Responsibility Category / 2015 Green Dot Industry Award
Scholarships to Medical Students with Unused Clothes
The “Recycle for Good” project, carried out at Boyner and YKM stores, aims to put to use unused textile products. With this project, clothes gathered in our stores and cental offices are divided into groups as “can be reused”, “can be seperated into its raw material”, “can be converted into energy”, and thus recycled into economy and reuse.
After the clothes that are suitable to be given to those in need have been seperated from the pile, the income of charity bazaar sales and the recycling of raw material is transferred to the student scholarship fund of the Lokman Hekim Health Foundation, which is our project partner. We started this project in November 2014 and since then we have collected 3,440 boxes, in other words 50 tons of clothes. 4,769 items of clothing have been sent to the needy. 26,8 tons of clothes not suitable to be given away were converted into thread while 4,1 tons were converted into energy. Money collected from sales and recycling was used to give scholarships to 14 Medical Students this year.
We are satisfied with the one-year results of the project “Recycle for Good”. We are also honoured to be awarded in the category of Environmental Social Responsibility within ÇEVKO’s Green Dot Industry Awards. However, we are aware that we stil have a long way to go. We are extending invitation to all our customers to bring the items of clothing they no longer use to our Boyner and YKM stores. This is an act of goodness. Join us and let us make it grow together!
FRITOLAY
Prevention Applications by Decreasing Resources Utilised in Packaging Design / 2015 Green Dot Industry Award
PepsiCo is a global food and drink company whose view point “Benefit Seeking Performance” means enabling sustainable growth for the society and our planet by making healthier investments for the future. PepsiCo has a portfolio consisting of delicious and nutrituous foods and drinks; and its innovative methods that aim to reduce the use of energy, water, and packaging have resulted in considerable decrease in the packaging costs of transportation and sales activities.
There has been a 1,627-ton decrease in the amount of packaging owing to the project “Decreasing the Sealing Areas on Crisps Packets.” Also, the returnable parcels collected from our dealers and selling points after having dropped off the goods, are cleaned up at depots and reused; this has led to a two-third-rate decrease in packaging waste. Within the Project Gold – Phase II, the packet sizes have been diminished in accordance with the reduced weight of the goods based on the consensus among marketing and sales teams, leading to a lesser consumption of OPP by 2,5 million square meters (110.00 kg)
Waste Management System and Applications / 2015 Green Dot Industry Award
As PepsiCo, in order to realize our vision that we call “Benefit Seeking Performance”, while making a positive impact on the public with our achievements we are determined to be successful both in business and financial aspects. In 2007, with the incentiveof TÜBİTAK, at our Kocaeli Factory and in 2010 at our Tarsus Factory, Solid Waste Plants (OWM) were established, where biogas is obtained from the organic waste discarded at the end of production, thus, with our organic waste, one thirds of the total energy consumed by our factories is compensated. The excessive mud at the Solid Waste Plants is drawn from the system and sent to the mud drying unit where it is dried, and then sent to the COMPOST facility for the production of Organomineral Fertilizer for the addition of the minerals that the potato plant needs. In this way, the fertilizer called “Naturalis” is obtained from our waste and given to the potatoes that are used in production, leading to the achievement of the “zero waste” target.
Nestle Waters
Prevention Applications by Decreasing Resources Utilised in Packaging Design Category / 2015 Green Dot Industry Award
Economizing in Electricity Equal to the One-year Need of a City with a Population of 100.000
Nestlé Waters was awarded in the second Green Dot Industry Awards Competition organised by ÇEVKO, where leading companies from Turkey and the world competed, in the category of Prevention Applications by Decreasing Resources Utilized in Packaging Design with its project “Using Reduced-Weight Packaging” it has been carrying out since 2009.
Nestlé Waters Turkey aims to reduce the use of raw material, the emission of greenhouse gases, and the consumption of energy at its Uludağ factory with its “Using Reduced-Weight Packaging” project in which it has invested 7,7 million TL in five years. With this project, Nestlé Waters has economised 50% in the consumption of electricity, and 35% in the consumption of packaging within the last five years. With a total of 88.716.724 Kwh energy saving, Nestlé Waters Turkey has economised energy equal to the one-year need of a city with a population of 100.000 people.
After expressing their joy at receiving an award with their project, which they have been working on for 5 years and getting successful results, Tolga Ünvan, Marketing Director of Nestlé Waters Turkey said “As Nestlé Waters, we consider environmental sustainability as one of our most important areas. Being one of the companies using preform in bigger volumes in Turkey, we lead the works on reduced-weight packaging. With the project, we have also encouraged our business partners in the sector to make their investments in mould and process. This venture that has honoured our trademark is important not only for us but also for the world we live in as well as the nature. We will continue our work to protect the environment and lessen our carbon footprints”
194 thousand trees saved with the reduction in the emission of greenhouse gases
With the use of methods like process optimization and design change within the project, the weight of raw materials was reduced; many parts of the packaging, from the bottle design to the design of the lid, were tested and changed.
While substantial economy was achieved in the consumption of packaging and energy, 194.500 trees were saved as a result of the reduced emission of greenhouse gases. Nestlé Waters, who has acquired an income of 35 million TL in five years with its investment, maintains leadership in the using of packaging, and consumption of energy in Turkey with its projects on reduced-weight packaging and energy saving.
PROCTER&GAMBLE
Waste Management System and Applications / 2015 Green Dot Industry Award
Zero Waste to Landfill
P&G is a 178-year old company whose main purpose is to create a better life for everyone in the present and in the future. With its three production facilities in two locations in Turkey, P&G aims to minimize environmental factors in all the phases of production-consumption by applying Global Environment Program alongside local regulations.
P&G follows the waste management program in its production facilities, targeting 100% recycling and the 2020 sustainability vision “zero waste to landfill.” Within the Global Environment Program, P&G aims to make environment friendly products, to minimize the consumption of resources during production, and to reduce to a minimum the emission of carbondioxide (CO2) in the transportation of the finished products. In order to realise these targets, P&G is developing projects that will reduce the usage of energy and water, the emission of CO2 and the amount of eliminated waste.
With the purpose of reducing the amount of factory waste by controlling waste sources, P&G has reduced its total energy consumption by 17%, emission of carbon by 13%, and the amount of eliminated waste by 63% in the last 4 years at its Gebze and Şekerpınar plants. As a result of these, P&G received the Waste Management System and Applications Award within ÇEVKO’s “Green Dot Industry Awards” supported by PRO Europe (Packaging Recovery Organisation Europe).
TETRAPAK
Environmental Social Responsibility Category / 2015 Green Dot Industry Award
“Little Things Renew Nature” Has Reached 50 thousand Students
As TetraPak we are very happy to have been awarded the Green Dot Industry Award, in the Green Dot Industry Awards Competition which was started for the first time by ÇEVKO in 2014. Our award was in the Environmental Social Responsibility category, Big Size Enterprise class, for our project “Little Things Renew Nature” specifically for primary school students.
Our project “Little Things Renew Nature”, on which we have been working under the auspices of the Ministry of National Education for 11 years, has reached almost 1.150.000 primary school children. Also in 2015, we explained this project, which is mainly concerned with the environment, to 50.000 students.
We have made the content of our project fun and easy to learn for the students; we show them in practice how the cartons of milk and fruit juice are recycled with a recycling kit composed of 3 stations; we emphasize the benefits of recycling and explain to them that collecting packaging waste seperately at home and at school is an important step which starts the recycling chain.
UNILEVER
Waste Management System and Applications / 2015 Green Dot Award
No More Solid Waste to Dump Areas
We, Unilever redesigned our business plan ve expanding targets in a sustainable frame 5 years ago with the purpose of leaving a cleaner world to future generations while increasing our positive social influence.
‘Zero waste to the dump’ is one of Unilever’s targets that it has made a commitment to realize within its “Sustainable Life Plan.” Although this target was set for 2015 for Global Unilever factories, as Unilever Turkey, we reached that target two years in advance, in 2013.
In accordance with our Waste Management target, we have been producing on a ‘zero waste to the dump’ status in all of our facilities in Turkey (8 manufacturing plants and dispatch depots) since 2013. We seperate the solid waste at its source and recycle it or use it as energy. In conclusion, we do not send any solid waste to dump areas.
