Our Environmental Policy

As Ayedaş, we conduct all our activities according to the following fundamental principles:

• We fulfil all our statutory and other compliance obligations related with the Environment.

• Within the scope to combat climate change we follow national and international emission targets and in order to provide benefit to the low carbon economy, a base element of sustainable development, we conduct activities to reduce energy consumption, increase energy efficiency and reduce our direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions.

• We adopt the waste management hierarchy, aiming primarily to prevent waste generation as a result of our activities at the source, to reuse the wastes if possible, and to ensure their recycling or recovery in a way that will not harm the environment.

• We set measurable targets in order to minimize our environmental impacts, and we continuously improve our environmental management system by periodically evaluating our performance according to these targets.

• We adopt the principle of using our natural resources efficiently.

• We take care to protect and improve the ecosystem, habitats and biodiversity in all areas where we operate.

• While determining the methodologies and goals for our environmental management system, we benefit from the contributions of our employees, customers, business partners, investors and other stakeholders as well as our senior management.

• We aim to develop, expand and maintain environmental awareness throughout our organization, encourage our entire business network, especially employees, suppliers and business partners, to carry out responsible activities in the field of environment, and lead the sector in this respect.

• In case of procurement of products-services with substantial environmental aspects, we identify the necessary environmental conditions in line with the life cycle principle and share them with our suppliers. Thus, we contribute in the improvement of our suppliers’ environmental performances.

We regularly share with stakeholders the environmental performance that we continuously monitor in accordance with the Environmental Policy, through Sustainability Reports. We determine the priority issues in the field of environment in line with the local and global trends concerning the sector, and update our environmental policy when necessary and share it with the relevant parties.