More Business Partners of Vodafone Contribute to "Waste to Code" Project

Vodafone's "Waste to Code" project, launched to raise awareness about electronic waste and promote electronic waste recycling, keeps growing with the support of its business partners. With its 15 new corporate business partners, the company will launch coding classes in various regions of Turkey by recycling the electronic waste to be collected with the help of nearly 14,000 employees in 6 provinces.

Vodafone aims to halve the environmental impact of its operations worldwide by 2025, resuming its efforts to decrease its ecological footprint in Turkey as well. Vodafone is nationally extending the "Waste to Code" project, launched to promote electronic waste recycling and raise awareness.

Artofis Mobilya, Balkantürksiad, Ballı Metal, Elektroteks, Elyafteks, HTS Metal Kalıp Otomotiv, Inoksan, Matlı Yem, Mavi Yeşil Danışmanlık, Menejer Bilgisayar, Numeko Safety, Özhan Marketler Zinciri, Penguen Gıda, Uludağ İçecek , and Yeşim Tekstil, new corporate partners of the company, have also joined the project and started collecting e-waste with the help of nearly 14,000 employees in its offices and plants in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Adana, Antalya, and Bursa. Moreover, Vodafone will open coding classes in various regions of Turkey thanks to the economic income generated by recycling the collected e-waste. These classes will be launched as part of the "Coding Tomorrow" project implemented in collaboration with Vodafone Turkey Foundation and Habitat Assocation, free to use by all children who want to learn how to code.

Expressing that they are working to become a purpose-oriented company, Hasan Süel, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone Turkey , stated:

“We have promised the world that we will touch the lives of 1 billion people and halve the ecological impact of our operations by 2025. Accordingly, we aim to recycle 100% of electronic waste in Turkey by 2025. We have launched our 'Waste to Code' project to ensure the accurate recycling of electronic wastes and raise awareness about this issue. We are opening coding classes in schools using the economic income generated from the recycling of electronic waste collected. Until today, we have opened classes in 7 provinces. With our 15 new corporate business partners, we will launch coding classes in various regions of Turkey by recycling the electronic waste to be collected with the help of thousands of employees in 6 provinces. Aiming for a better future for everyone, we will continue our sustainability efforts that create value."

Coding classes have been opened in 7 provinces

Combining its goals of supporting education and reducing ecological impact with the "Waste to Code" project, Vodafone collects electronic waste received from the homes of employees and business partners and ensures that these wastes are recycled by Akademi Cevre, a certified recycling company. Within the "Coding Tomorrow" project launched in partnership with Vodafone Turkey Foundation and Habitat Association, coding classes are established in schools thanks to the economic income gained from recycling. With this project launched in May 2019, coding classes have been opened in Mardin, Samsun, Adana, Gaziantep, Usak, Bingol, and Canakkale until today. Traveling around Turkey to promote Vodafone's corporate solutions, Vodafone Business Digitalization Truck has also contributed to the project by collecting electronic waste in the cities it visited. In 2020, Vodafone's corporate business partners Artıtel, Deloitte Turkey, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Karel Elektronik, KPMG Turkey, Mikrolink, and Ostim Organized Industrial Zone joined the project.

Those who want to become a corporate supporter of the "Waste to Code" project can contact Vodafone at surdurulebilirlik@vodafone.com .