2021 Sustainability Report
As Tofaş, we have a sustainable approach in all our production processes. In this direction, we highly regard the efficiency of natural resource use. We carry out our activities within the scope of refusing, reducing, reusing, repurposing, and recycling improvements.
We always aim to manage our products and services’ positive or negative effects in the best way possible. That’s why we evaluate our products and services with a complete lifecycle perspective.
Comprehensive evaluations were made in Borsa Istanbul in 2021 by the international evaluation organization Refinitiv. As a result of these evaluations, Tofaş continued to be among the 50 Turkish companies eligible to be included in the BIST Sustainability Index with its sustainable production strategy. In addition, Tofaş answered the questions of the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) on water and climate change in 2021.
We transparently publish the results of our activities in these areas on our corporate website and annual sustainability reports. We also disclose our environmental and sustainability targets to all our stakeholders.
The European Directive 2000/53/EC targets are 85% recycling and 95% repurposing. As Tofaş, we care to work in harmony with these targets. In this direction, we recycle at least 95% of our vehicles that have completed their life, including energy generation.
In addition to minimizing the environmental impact of the production and use of our vehicles, we are constantly developing programs to make our processes more sustainable and our vehicles more environmentally friendly.
As Tofaş, we set targets to increase the use of recyclable and environmentally friendly materials in our vehicles. In this process, we recycle the recoverable components of materials that have reached the end of their life. We ensure that the remaining materials are disposed of by national and international regulations.
Some of the studies carried out under the leadership of Tofaş’s R&D team to increase the ratio of recycled and environmentally friendly materials used in vehicles are as follows:
