"68 percent of environmental damage consumer origin"

26 April 2012 Green Economy
Unilever Turkey CEO Izzet Karaca spoke of its ongoing works.

Unilever Turkey’s CEO Izzet Karaca Unilever Global Communications Officer Sue Garrard announced that the first year of Sustainable Life Plan in which Unilever has successfully completed. Unilever aims to reduce the total impact of work processes on the environment and to contribute more to the health and esenlik of the products produced. [

The top manager responsible for the 35 countries of Unilever, including Turkey and Russia, Izzet Karaca meeting said that Unilever’s sixth largest market, managed from Turkey with 750 million populations, with 30 factories and 12 thousand employees, and Unilever’s Sustainable Life Plan has played an important role in achieving success, as well as being connected to the goals of the Sustainable Life Plan, and in 2011, they noted 71 percent success in approximately 60 targets.

Anilever recorded that the energy used in 2011, according to 2008, 600 thousand tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) reductions, Karaca continued its words in the following way; “ 20% of the total energy we use globally comes from renewable sources and we are moving successfully to reach our goal of 40 percent, which we put for 2020.. We use less water in our factories and produce less waste. In 2011, about three of our facilities were never sent waste to solid waste areas. We want to remove this rate from half to the end of this year. For example, in Russia we managed to reduce CO2 emissions from 2nd half of 2011 to 2 thousand 850 tons per year. We also have divided the 850 thousand targets we put for 2015 with 40,000 climate-friendly ice cream cabinet in terms of greenhouse gas reduction. Many of our laundry products were formulated again, which led us to our 15 percent reduction target from laundry washing in 2012. "

From the raw materials we use 26 percent of the environmental damages of calculations made in the world scale in the description of the Burzzet Karaca, 3 percent from our factories, 2 percent of the shipping, 1 percent of which is caused by waste, while the biggest share is about the use of products of the consumer with 68 percent, so they said they are very important in consumer education.

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