Waste Management

At Arçelik, we monitor our waste according to European Waste Codes (EWC) on a monthly basis from each production facility. The collected data is consolidated by the central environment team for any possible improvements and shared with internal and external stakeholders.

With an improvement perspective, we adopt the near-zero waste approach during our waste management efforts. Our near-zero waste concept aims to reduce, reuse, and recycle the waste, and minimize all waste where landfill and non-energy recovery incineration are applied. In line with this, we have set a target to increase the waste recycling rate to 99%.

To be able to reach our near-zero waste target with our integrated waste management approach, we identified areas to improve our performance and planned a roadmap. In this regard, Arçelik;

Makes resource efficiency improvements and invests in technologies that reduce the amount of virgin raw materials used,
Prevents and reduces operational waste,
Minimizes overall chemical consumption and waste generation by redesigning product manufacturing processes,
Improves the effectiveness of separating waste at the source, and
Increases the rate of waste sent to recycling and energy recovery instead of landfill.

For further information regarding our quantified target and progress, please refer to Arçelik Sustainability Reports.