Vodafone Turkey Received Environmental Award from UN Global Compact

Vodafone Turkey won the grand prize in the "Environment" category with its "Waste to Code" project at the "2021 Partnership for Sustainability Awards" organized by the United Nations Global Compact Network Ukraine.

With the vision of leading Turkey's digitalization, Vodafone has added a new success to its national and international achievements. With its "Waste to Code" project implemented to raise awareness regarding electronic waste and promote its recycling, Vodafone Turkey has won the grand prize in the"Environment" (Planet) category at the "Partnership for Sustainability Awards" has been organized by the United Nations Global Compact Network in Ukraine since 2018.

Mentioning how they have made sustainability an integral part of their ways of doing business, Mr. Hasan Süel, the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone Turkey , also added:

"As a goal-oriented company, we act according to our sustainability roadmap, aiming to recycle 100% of our electronic waste by 2025. With our Waste to Code project implemented to promote the recycling of e-waste and raise awareness, we collect and recycle electronic waste with the e-waste containers placed across Turkey, opening coding classes in schools using the income we earn by recycling e-waste. Until today, we, with the participation of our 23 corporate business partners in our project, have opened coding classes in 7 provinces with the income we have generated by recycling e-waste. I would like to wholeheartedly thank all my teammates and stakeholders who contributed to and helped us implement our project. We are happy to be among the winners of the 'Partnership for Sustainability Awards', among the world's leading award programs in sustainability. We will continue to include sustainability in our core business strategy and move towards our goals."

Coding classes have been opened in 7 provinces

Combining its goals of improving youngsters' digital skills 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, Uşak, Bingöl, and Çanakkale 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. Artıtel, Deloitte Turkey, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Karel Elektronik, KPMG TurkeI, Mikrolink, OSTIM Organized Industrial Zone, 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, Yeşim Tekstil and Deniz Tekstil , Vodafone Turkey's corporate business partners, also contributed to the project by starting to collect e-waste with the support of nearly 15,000 employees in their offices and factories. The project also contributes to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals numbered 4, 8, 12, 13, and 17.

Nearly 100 applications

The "Partnership for Sustainability Awards" held by the UN Global Compact Network in Ukraine since 2018 aims to recognize organizations, businesses, associations, and individuals who produce innovative solutions to the environmental, social, and economic problems of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. This year, while the competition with an international jury consisting of representatives of the UN Global Compact local networks received nearly 100 applications from Eastern European countries in Environment, Society, Peace, and Welfare, three winners were recognized in each category.