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Environmental Footprint

At CCI, the management of our environmental impact plays an important role in the continuity of our operations. We are aware of our responsibility to help overcome concerns arising from a growing population and scarce natural resources. Accordingly, we aim at minimizing our use of natural resources and waste generation, and continue our operations in an effective and efficient manner. We realize our environmental policies that focus on priority topics, such as ‘energy management and the climate crisis', 'water' and 'sustainable packaging'
Governance
CCI’s sustainability governance has been structured for the purpose of supporting and managing comprehensive concerns regarding the environment. The CCI Group Supply Chain Director has ultimate responsibility regarding environmental management, carefully supervising our sustainability goals.
Our Environmental Policy
Compliance
We comply with local legal requirements, international standards and TCCC KORE requirements. Our perpetual goal is 100% compliance with legal environmental limitations and TCCC standards. In 2020, we fully complied withenvironmental legislation and TCCC standards, and consequently did not receive any fines.
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Training
We provided our employees with 4,566 man/hours of environmental training in Turkey, Jordan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in 2020 in order to increase our performance and raise environmental awareness.
Management Systems
We established a committee to maximize our potential to reduce our WUR (Water Usage Ratio) and EUR (Energy Usage Ratio) values in 2018. This committee conducted a current status assessment and gap analysis among the plants, followed by an action plan. With this methodology, CCI reviews and evaluates its performance every three months.
Highlights of our Environmental Management Performance
Our primary goal is to grow by using less resources. Reducing our environmental footprint while growing economically (reducing the consumption of raw materials and energy, and the generation of waste) is referred to as ‘decoupling’. CCI successfully decouples economic growth from the consumption of natural resources. The drop in waste generation and energy consumption at CCI, which has grown in terms of its operations through the years, is proof that decoupling has been successful. In 2020, we achieved energy savings of 330 million MJ, generated 45,000 tons of CO2e emissions, and saved 104,000 m3 of water. We supplied the energy needs for illumination and post mix line at our Izmir Plant from 100% clean energy resources.
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Digital Twin Project
During production at plants, the sanitization of line system components is necessary as per standard quality procedures. The times and performance of the sanitization process may prolong the duration of production, reduce line utilization ratios, and involve the unnecessary use of resources that can have an environmental impact. Applications ensuring the holistic monitoring and analysis of problems and performance are absent in our sanitization processes, and the insights that would allow us to identify losses and improvement opportunities cannot be obtained.
For these reasons, we started the Digital Twin Project on 27 October 2020 for the purpose of generating digital solutions to problems found in the current state of affairs. Within the scope of the project, we enabled the data for each process to be monitored and analyzed based on the entire system of the real-time process status, process system components, and process steps and parameters. This helped us identify opportunities for improvement and prevent losses by taking actions and identifying process performance problems and production, time and environmental resource losses.
Benefits Created
An increase in production and line utilization and a decrease of downtime
Reduction of energy consumption
Reduction of water consumption
Reduction in materials (chemicals) consumption (Caustic by 2%, Acid by 1.5%)
Reduction in CIP process duration
1,440 L less caustic and 960 L less acid solution was used in a six-week period, and 1,236 kWh of electricity and 560 m3 of water was saved. In addition to benefiting our company, the project created value for the environment, our employees and our consumers.
In 2020, we also carried out the Intercity Transport Planning Digitalization Project. This project ensured a reduction in transport costs, energy consumption and our carbon footprint. You can find further information on the project in the section entitled ‘Creating Value for Our Customers’.
Energy Management And Climate Protection
Energy efficiency and protecting the climate comprise our main focus in reducing our environmental footprint.
Goals and Successes
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The climate crisis is among the biggest threats to the world’s ecosystems and humanity. We are aware that climate change may have direct and indirect implications for our business, supply chain and communities. As a result of this awareness, we join the global business community in implementing all changes necessary to combat climate risks.
The focus areas of our energy efficiency and climate protection strategy are:
1. Reducing energy usage and GHG emissions in our manufacturing operations and manufacturing and sales offices by implementing energy efficiency programs;
2. Reducing logistics-based direct emissions with effective fleet and fuel management and optimization practices;
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Reducing indirect emissions by concentrating on our climate friendly refrigeration programs;
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Increasing awareness on climate protection by collaborating with our distributors, dealers, suppliers and other stakeholders;
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Calculating, verifying and reporting the accurate carbon footprint of our operations;
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Promoting climate change awareness by engaging with our stakeholders on relevant platforms;
7. Calculating the carbon footprint of our products in line with a life cycle approach;
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Researching clean and renewable energy and investing in it, where possible;
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Investigating opportunities and conducting feasibility studies to supply sustainable sources.
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Practices to Reduce the Carbon Footprint
Sustainable or Responsible Procurement
At CCI, we prefer environment-friendly alternatives in our procurements to the greatest possible extent and choose all of the equipment we use from among devices that consume less energy. In order to minimize our carbon dioxide emissions, in 2020, we replaced our LPG-operated forklifts with electric forklifts, as a result of which we prevented the emission of 640 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by reducing our carbon dioxide emission by 68%. We replaced our company vehicles with hybrid alternatives that consume 38% less fuel
Server Systems
We use green electricity in all of the cloud systems from which we receive services. With the aim of consuming less energy and, accordingly, minimizing our carbon dioxide emissions, we virtualized 331 servers in the CCI system rooms. Accordingly, we prevented an annual electricity consumption of 98 million kWh, and therefore 46,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
Biometric Signature Application
Through the joint efforts of the Digital Technologies and Legal departments, we became the first fast-moving consumer goods company to shift to the biometric signature application. Over 100 documents have been signed using a biometric signature to date. This instant and paper-free signature that has started use in approval processes will be used only for internal processes until it becomes legally valid. The teams’ plans for the future include the pooling of all signatures automatically on the same platform, and fully shifting to both biometric signatures and e-signatures. Through this signature that operates as a 100% secure process by saving an individual’s angle of holding a pen, the pressure applied on the pen, and the speed and acceleration, we hope to adapt to the fast-changing digital world, raise productivity and cost-effectiveness, save time, and continue our activities with a sensitivity towards nature.
Transport and Distribution Practices
We transport millions of products from our suppliers to our plants, and from our plants to our customers and distributors. Our business success is dependent on an efficient logistics network that optimizes the number of vehicles in transit and the mileage covered and aims to reduce emissions. The optimization of distribution is crucial to our business performance since transportation accounts for around 9.2% of the total GHG emissions of our value chain in Turkey. We choose vehicles that consume less fuel and emit less carbon. Through our ‘Route Optimization Project’ since 2013 and the ‘Road Net’ platform since 2016, we reduce 1,400 tons of GHG emissions and achieve fuel savings.
Cooling Practices
Our cooling practices resulting from our innovative solutions greatly improve our consumers’ enjoyment of our products. We know that while launching new practices to satisfy our customers, we must do so with an awareness of our responsibility to reduce our environmental footprint. Accordingly, we continuously upgrade existing equipment with energy efficiency technology, while continuing to work with our suppliers to innovate and develop climate- friendly cooling technologies. Within this reporting period, we collected and disposed of about 51,000 items of old cooling equipment. Exceeding our target of preventing the emission of 1.75 million tons of CO2 by procuring EMD- and HFC-Free Cold drink equipment between 2010-2020, we succeeded in preventing the emission of 2 million tons of CO2.
HFC-Free Cold Drink Equipment
The use of HFCs as refrigerants in cold drink equipment has a negative impact on the climate. Together with its bottling partners, TCCC set its new goal as having ‘100% of its new cold drink equipment HFC-free’. In cases where a commercial HFC-free solution is not available, we collaborate with our suppliers to develop alternative HFC-free solutions. This effort is vitally important as HFC-free cold drink equipment has at least 1,000 times less effect on the climate compared to their HFC counterparts. On the other hand, refrigerants in cold drink equipment may slowly leak into the atmosphere during use or may leak completely if the equipment is not properly disposed of at the end of its life cycle. CCI always ensures that cold drink equipment is properly degassed. As of the end 2020, 76.5% of all cold drink equipment and 100% of newly purchased cold drink equipment in Turkey was HFC-free.
Cold Drink Equipment with Energy Management Devices (EMDs)
Effective since 2009, the Energy Management Device (EMD) is another tool which enables us to fine tune our cold drink equipment’s environmental footprint. By using cold drink equipment with EMDs, we can reduce energy consumption up to 42%. For this reason, we preferred to purchase new cold drink equipment (larger than 250-liter capacity) with EMDs as part of the initiative. With our climate-friendly actions in seven countries of operation, we have prevented 2,000 tons of CO2 emissions since 2009, which is equivalent to the CO2 emissions that 170 million trees would absorb from the atmosphere.
The total ratio of cold drink equipment with Energy Management Devices (EMDs) within our operations increased from 48% to 54% in 2020.
Cold Drink Equipment with LED Lights
At CCI's Turkey operations, we have been purchasing cold drink equipment with LED lights since 2012 in order to minimize our energy consumption. With the purchasing of all new cold drink equipment with LED lights, the overall ratio of our cold drink equipment with LED lights increased from 8% in 2012 to 67.1% in 2019. In line with our strategy, we will keep increasing this ratio and minimizing our energy consumption.
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*The calculation is made based on the assumption that an average mature tree (15 years old or older) would absorb 12 kg CO2 annually.
Awareness Programs of TCCC and CCI on Energy and Climate
Hand-in-Hand Environment Program
We carry out work to introduce a more extensive environment and sustainability perspective to our culture strategy, create a ‘behavior- oriented environment program’, develop our behavior regarding the environment in our operations, and manage, and reduce the impact of, our environmental footprint in line with United Nations Global Compact Targets in keeping with our value-creation strategy within the scope of the ‘Hand-in-Hand’ Environment Program, work on which started in 2018, and which was commissioned in 2020 in production operations. At CCI, we aim at becoming the LEADER (best of class) in the TCCC cultural maturity evaluation carried out under the program.
Reduce the CO2 Emissions Embedded in the Drink in Your Hand by 25% by 2020
In 2013, TCCS launched a global initiative called ‘Reduce the CO2 emissions embedded in the drink in your hand by 25% by 2020’, and aimed at reducing GHG emissions across its entire value chain. This target was achieved on a global scale by 2020. The Coca-Cola Company is committed to reducing its absolute carbon emissions across its value chain by 25% between 2015 and 2030. This target was approved by the Science-Based Targets Initiative. At CCI, we continue our efforts to identify a roadmap suitable for our own geography of operations and dynamics.
CCI at the Climate Change Conference
In December 2020, ÇEVKO organized a conference entitled ‘Turkey’s Fight against Climate Change’. The CCI Group Corporate Affairs Manager shared CCI’s sustainability strategy and its pioneering practices with regard to climate change with participants from the public and private sectors and academia.
Emissions by Scope and Region
At CCI, together with the total emissions for each country of operation, we also monitor our GHG emissions ratio, which represents grams of CO2 per liter of product produced. Our absolute CO2 emissions in seven countries of operation increased from 1.03 kilotons to 1.27 kilotons. This increase was due to the addition of Turkmenistan and Iraq within the reporting scope. Our absolute emissions increased by 2.8%, while our revenues grew by 15.3%. For details on stack gas emissions, please see.
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Emissions Caused by the Turkey Operations
This year in CCI's Turkey Operations, even though stationary combustion emissions increased, the fleet and fugitive emissions significantly decreased, and our total Scope 1 emissions decreased by 9% to 41,569 tons of CO2. Our Scope 2 emissions increased by 12% to 76,888 tons of CO2e. Although the emissions arising from commuting and business travel, which remain within the category of Scope 3 emissions,
have decreased, an increase has been observed in emissions in cold beverage equipment, and those originating from downstream transport in the value chain. Also, the emission coefficient announced by the Ministry of Energy for the calculation of Scope 3 emissions demonstrated a significant increase compared to TCCC’s coefficient taken as a reference in 2019, resulting in Scope 3 emissions being higher than expected.
For information on emissions, please see Section 6 - Sustainability Performance Indicators.
In addition to reducing absolute emissions, we optimized our operations to increase emission savings. We prevented 360,000 tons of CO2 emissions in Turkey in 2019 as a result of best practices executed throughout the value chain, which is equal to the amount of CO2 that approximately 30 million trees annually extract from the atmosphere.
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Sustainable Packaging
Goals and Successes
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Sustainable Packaging
Packaging is an essential aspect of the quality of our products. Thanks to our sustainable packaging efforts we carry out in order to conserve resources and consume less energy, we are able to ensure the safe delivery of our products to our customers and consumers, while contributing to a circular economy and reducing our carbon footprint.
Our Sustainable Packaging Strategy: Design, Collect, Partner!
To prevent packaging from ending up in our oceans and waterways and polluting our communities, CCI has harmonized its packaging strategy with TCCC’s new environment program, ‘A World Without Waste’. A key element of our packaging strategy is using less resources for packaging. Consequently, we continuously work to develop lighter packaging by using less material, and conduct lightweight projects on both the glass and resin side. We also focus our efforts on reusing our glass bottles, retrieving the packaging we put on the market, and increasing the recycled content in our packaging.
We saved 411.4 tons of resin and 534 tons of glass material in six countries thanks to our sustainable packaging program. In 2020, Plant Bottle usage performance was 95.1% in Azerbaijan and 89% in Pakistan.
A World Without Waste
The Coca-Cola Company launched a bold and ambitious environmental program in 2018 with the vision for ‘A World Without Waste’. Among the project’s targets are:

• Continuing to focus on making the packaging 100% recyclable,
• Collecting and recycling the equivalent of 100% of the packaging it sells by 2030,
• Increasing recycled content in the packaging.
For more information on the program, please visit the TCCC website
Lightweight
As defined in our strategy, we put several practices into action to reduce the number of natural resources used in packaging without compromising the safety of our products. Our efforts began in 2008 when we reduced the length of the bottleneck for the lightweight PET bottle in Turkey. We have been implementing lightweight programs since 2010 in our Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan operations.
In 2015, we conducted a benchmark study covering all CCI countries of operations to map the amount of resin used for all sizes of bottles and to share best practices of lightweight applications among the
plants. Through our lightweight practices, we save materials, as well as reduce GHG emissions released during production. With the help of the lightweight and short neck practices, we saved 411.5 tons of resin and 534 tons of glass within our nine / ten countries of operation in 2020.
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Recycled PET (r-PET)
As a consequence of the great emphasis we place on circular economy at CCI, we focus on the entire life cycle of packaging through a renewed perspective. We make continuous efforts to increase the amount of recycled material in our packaging. Besides the mandatory regulations on the use of r-PET of up to 6% in beverage packaging, we have long been working on the use of recycled materials. In 2020, we used an r-PET content of 20% in 32% of our total volume using the chemical recycling method.
The target for r-PET usage in the content is 10% for 2021. Using r-PET in secondary packaging, like labels and shrink, is another target we are working on with our strategic partners. We increased the recycled material content of our plastic cases to 25%in 2020. In upcoming years, we plan to continue our extensive efforts to further increase r-PET content.
Returnable Glass Bottle Use in Turkey and Pakistan
The returnable bottle practice that allows bottles to be used up to eight times is among our practices aimed at reducing energy consumption and resource use. In 2020, we avoided 67,590 tons of CO2e through returnable glass bottle practices in Turkey and Pakistan, equaling the amount that is absorbed by 5.6 million trees. *
* The calculation is made based on the assumption that an average mature tree (15 years old or older) would absorb 12 kg of CO2 annually.
Post-Consumer Packaging Waste Recycling
We believe every piece of packaging has a life beyond its initial value. For this reason, we place a high priority on recycling, encouraging our customers and consumers to use returnable bottles and increasing our recycling rates in cooperation with our authorized business partners. The goal of the cross-functional Sustainable Packaging Task Force we formed to sustain a holistic approach is to shape CCI’s long-term recycling strategy and lay out a roadmap to achieve a circular economy. The Sustainable Packaging Task Force conducted an analysis of the waste infrastructure, legal background, and stakeholder expectations regarding the ‘recycling of packaging material’ in our countries of operation. The details of relevant new regulations issued in Turkey are given in the Our Operating Environment section.
In accordance with the amendment made to the Law on the Environment in 2020, we carried out our extended manufacturer’s responsibility with respect to the packages we put on the market in Turkey through the Recovery Contribution. In this respect, we comply with applicable legislation in all countries in which we operate, and, moreover, aim to ensure the most effective and efficient collection and recycling infrastructure. In line with this goal, we cooperate with the government, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector, and conduct pilot projects.
We began stakeholder engagement efforts to create a common vision for recycling and establish recycling models where applicable. In Turkey, the current system is based on the Extended Manufacturer’s Responsibility.
We will continue to team up with TCCC, local communities, NGOs, industry peers and consumers to help make recycling easier and more accessible for everyone by improving local recycling systems and driving policy changes that support a circular economy. All members of CORE, which is the first Plastics Alliance formed in Pakistan for the purpose of eliminating packaging waste through official collection and recycling and raising awareness at the community level to this end, make efforts to contribute to a circular economy and create value for the community by reducing their packaging footprint through sustainable and innovative practices.
Post-Consumer Packaging Recycling Performance of CCI Turkey
Our Zero Waste Approach to Our Operations
In order to minimize our environmental footprint, we strive to keep the amount of waste that is disposed of safely and in compliance with legislation at a minimum at all CCI plants. We carry out practices aimed at preventing, reducing, reusing, recycling and recovering waste, which are the focal points of our main strategy, in line with the ISO 14001 environmental management system, CCI’s environment policy, legislation, and TCCC’s KORE-EOSH requirements. At our production sites, we segregate our waste into reusable, recyclable, hazardous, landfill and non-recyclable wastes.
All waste that can be reused is reused, and that which can be recycled and recovered is delivered to licensed companies in all CCI operations. Waste that cannot be recycled or recovered is sorted according to specific, legally-defined categories and delivered to licensed disposal facilities or municipalities to be used as landfill, or to be incinerated. According to our waste management standards, all waste disposal sites are evaluated before use, and periodically thereafter, to verify and document site acceptability.
In line with our approach to producing more while consuming less, achieving zero waste production is our ultimate goal. Since 2006, we have been carrying out various practices to improve and develop our performance in all of our countries of operation. In line with the Zero Waste Regulation, all of our plants in CCI Turkey currently operate as ‘Zero Waste’ facilities. The implementation process continues at our Headquarters.

1.1 million pages of paper were saved in one year through the digitalization process, and by ensuring that all printouts are made double-sided as a default in printers. This way, carbon dioxide emissions equal to the amount removed by 4,000 trees in a year have been prevented.

All computers and peripheral equipment we use are delivered to certified recycling companies upon completing their life cycle.

Total waste recycling has been at 98.14% in Turkey, 95.76% in Jordan, 87.90% in Kazakhstan, 99.21% in Azerbaijan, 97.29% in Pakistan, 98.25% in Kyrgyzstan, 89.42% in Tajikistan, 37.33% in Turkmenistan, and 94.44% in Iraq.
Improvements in Total Waste Recycling Rates between 2006 and 2019
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Water Management
Goals and Successes
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Living standards improve along with developments in technology. However, this development results in an increase in consumption habits. A 40% increase in the demand for water is expected until 2030. One of our most critical natural resources, water is the fundamental content of our products, and an indispensable element of our production. Aware of the impact of the sustainable use of water on the sustainability of our business, we fully support TCCC’s ultimate goal of ‘replenishing every drop of water we use’ with the aim of minimizing our negative impact on water,
which is a high-priority topic for us, and sustaining water-efficient operations. At all of our plants, we consider the impact of the climate crisis on water sources in the basins where our plants are located. On this basis, every year we develop water saving programs in line with the Operational Excellence Culture, make investments, and implement them. In 2020, we saved approximately 104,000 m3 of water in the countries in which we operate.
Our water management strategy is summarized below:
Improving the overall water-use efficiency at our plants;
Implementing Source Vulnerability Assessment (SVA) and Source Water Protection (SWP) studies to protect water catchment basins in the regions where our plants are located;
Managing wastewater and storm water discharge at our plants (achieving 100% compliance in wastewater treatment);
Replenishing the water we use back to nature by implementing locally relevant programs;
Mitigating risk for communities and for our business by partnering with governments, NGOs and communities to assess, understand and generate effective, long-term water
stress solutions and implement source water protection plans;
Researching and investing in new technologies to reduce water consumption;
nvestigating opportunities and conducting feasibility studies to supply sustainable sources.
Water Management Performance
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Reductions in Water Usage Ratios (WURs) between 2006 and 2019 (L/L)
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Plant Water Usage and Minimization
At CCI, we monitor the amount of water used for producing one liter of product. Our plants have created water maps in order to follow water consumption on a daily basis. We analyze, evaluate and spread best practices among CCI plants to reduce our water usage ratio (WUR). Our 2021 goal for the CCI Turkey Operation is to achieve a water usage ratio of 1.445 liters of water per liter of product.
Top 10 Water-Saving Programs
All CCI plants completed the program in 2018, designed to reduce water usage at production facilities and to support the continuous improvement of water usage ratios at our plants.
Some of the top water saving programs included;
Soft water regeneration optimization project at the Isparta plant in Turkey;
Wastewater treatment effluent to be used for road washing at the Lahore plant in Pakistan;
Replacing the water which enters the cooling tower of the PET blow and preform injection parts with reverse osmosis water, and consequently reducing the blowdown amount.
TCCC’s Replenishment Goal
TCCS’s ‘water neutrality’ goal is defined as:

1. Returning the water we use back to the communities we serve by treating all wastewater and returning it to the environment at a level of purity that supports aquatic life.

2. Replenishing the amount of water equivalent to our product volume through locally relevant water and sanitation projects.

TCCS globally replenished an estimated 100% of the equivalent amount of water used in their finished beverages as of 2015. The water replenishment rate for Turkey has reached 139% as of 2020.
Water Replenishment Programs
Since 2005, when it launched its water replenishment programs, TCCC has been working with communities, governments and respected third parties to commission and support projects that address local water needs and safe water access, as well as watershed protection and water for productive use.

These water stewardship programs have been developed considering the following objectives:
to improve safe access to water and sanitation;
to protect watersheds;
to provide water for productive use
to educate and raise awareness about water issues, including engagement on water policy.
Through water replenishment projects, 12 billion liters of water has been recovered to date in our countries of operation covered by the reporting. We will continue replenishment programs in 2021 in local regions through community water projects in line with the results of source water vulnerability assessments (SVAs) conducted for each of our plants.
Source Water Vulnerability Assessment (SVA)
The water we use in our products and our production processes is drawn from local sources. Therefore, as part of our water stewardship program we conduct a local source vulnerability assessment (SVA) and develop a Source Water Protection Plan (SWPP) to use water responsibly, and to mitigate water-related risks to our system and to the communities we serve.
SVAs allow us to assess vulnerabilities to community sources of water and help us determine the potential impact of our water usage and wastewater discharge. This assessment is conducted in five-year rounds at all CCI plants. Our goal for 2020 was identified as conducting SVA studies in our Astana, Çorlu, Izmir, Mersin, Ankara and Baku plants. Accordingly, we conducted SVA studies in our Astana, Çorlu, Izmir, Mersin, Ankara and Baku plants as well as in Ashgabat, thus performing above the identified target.
During the SVA studies that include processes such as field surveys, interviews with plant authorities or site representatives, interviews with local and national authorities, as well as desktop studies, the water basins and sub-basins in the vicinity of our plants are analyzed. This study includes the topographical, geological, hydro- geological and hydrological assessment of the study areas, as well as the identification of any risks to the sustainability of water resources within these areas. As a result of these assessments, we create an inventory of the social, environmental and political risks to the water sources supplying our facilities and the surrounding communities, and evaluate the results of these studies with an SWPP, acting on a plant-by-plant basis.
Wastewater Management
At CCI, in line with our wastewater management approach, which we identified as ‘Zero wastewater generation and reclamation’, in all countries in which we operate we comply with local laws that regulate wastewater purification and discharge. We also have high standards regarding wastewater discharge, and act in accordance with TCCC standards that determine the wastewater pollutant limits for our operations. In many cases, the allowed discharge limits set by TCCC are much lower than the limits established by the local authorities.
In addition to ISO 14001 Environment Management System Audits, all CCI operations are regularly audited in detail by third parties. We monitor our wastewater quality parameters by periodic analyses and reduce our environmental impact by treating wastewater prior to discharge. We also monitor the amount of wastewater discharged per liter of product and develop projects to reduce wastewater generated as a result of our operations.
Water Discharge
In 2020 we discharged 4,420,015 million m3 of wastewater in total in the nine countries in which we operate. We discharged 1,216,272 m3 of this water into the municipal sewer system, 1,778,243 m3 to the organized industrial zone purification plants, and 1,425,500 m3 to ground waters following purification. For TCCC requirements for treated wastewater quality please see Section 6 - Sustainability Performance Indicators. For CCI Plants’ water discharge analysis, please see Section 6 - Supplementary Disclosures for BIST.
A Step Towards a Sustainable Future
CCI Pakistan signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Pakistan Horticulture Agency to supply purified water for cleaning roads and watering green areas.

Foreseeing that we would attain our target, CCI Pakistan signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Pakistan Horticulture Agency in Lahore (PHA) as a step towards a sustainable future. According to the understanding between the parties, CCI Pakistan shall supply PHA with purified wastewater for the irrigation of green areas and the cleaning of roads for the next five years.
As a compliant and responsible corporate citizen, CCI Pakistan aims at carrying out its share of the responsibility by implementing innovative and effective water utilization mechanisms, and by improving its water utilization ratio. In these critical times, during which Pakistan is suffering from a severe water crisis, CCI Pakistan is leading the way by taking sustainable initiatives that set an example.
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