

NATURE
"We protect nature for our future"
Ali Yavuzçehre Foundation 2023- Equal Labour Photography Competition
Niyazi GURGEN - Silver Medal
Solar Energy System
As Yavuzçehre, we act with awareness of our environmental responsibilities and aim to contribute to a clean, sustainable environment. With the solar energy system we implemented in 2021, we started to use green energy in production and in our electric vehicles. With this step, we not only meet our own energy needs, but also minimize our negative impact on the environment by preventing possible carbon emissions. We are proud to contribute to a sustainable future with the mission of leaving a clean world to future generations.


Rainwater Harvesting
The textile industry wastes more water than many other sectors because it uses large amounts of water in washing and dyeing processes.
We reduce our water consumption with our Rainwater Harvesting project. Since 2022, we have been storing rainwater in a reservoir with a roof system that collects rainwater and using it in our production after passing it through a filtering system.
Yarn from Scraps
After collecting the waste fabrics remaining in manufacturing in the textile industry, the fabrics are separated according to raw materials, colors and blends. After the separated textile wastes are classified according to their content and raw material properties, they are blended with recycled fibers and turned into yarn. In this way, we regenerate the fabrics that are a part of recycling and bring them back into the economy.


Carbon Footprint
Although the direct impact of the textile sector on global warming is not obvious, it leads to the spread of atmospheric pollutants due to the wide scope of the sector and its supply chain. The climate crisis, which is caused by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and has become a reality of our lives, continues to become more serious day by day and threatens the lives of all living things. As Yavuzçehre Tekstil, we are acting in line with our company's sustainability goals by starting to calculate the carbon footprint for the first time in 2021 to determine these impacts.
Waste Management
It is a waste management philosophy that prevents or reduces waste generation by using resources more efficiently, and if waste occurs, separates what can be recycled with correct separation methods from others and returns organic groups to their natural cycle with biodegradable methods. With this philosophy, we take into account the life cycle of waste and choose sustainable management for each waste group.


FOR NATURE
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We send 350 tons of cutting waste , which we regularly collect from our supply chains, annually to recycling companies to be made into recycled yarn.
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We provide 85% of all the energy we use throughout the year from the Sun, with the clean energy we obtain from the 505 kWp capacity panels on the roof.
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We seperate
all kinds of waste generated in our company and bring it into the circular economy. We constantly monitor our waste amounts and make compost from food waste. -
We reduced our carbon footprint, which was 22945,27 tons of CO2e in 2021, to 20240,19 tons of CO2e in 2022.
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We provide 25% of the water used in production from the rainwater we collect in the 1000 m3 rainwater collection pool.