Santa Farma, a distinguished Turkish pharmaceutical company with 75 years of history, is now recognized for its eco-friendly manufacturing operations thanks to the Zero Waste Certificate issued to its manufacturing plant in Kocaeli Gebze V (Chemistry) Special Organized Industrial Zone (GEBKIM OSB) by the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization.
As an environmentally responsible company, Santa Farma İlaç Sanayi A.Ş. displays its environmental approach by means of this Zero Waste Certificate which is a reflection of its successful environmental policy.
Zero Waste Certificate is issued to enterprises, organizations and local administrations which are certified to create an internal team to remain in charge of zero waste policies, create a separate collection system for the recyclable wastes specified in the regulation, complete the training for set-up and operation of the system and enter their data to the zero waste information system.
The manufacturing plant of Santa Farma operating on a closed space of 44,000 m2 on a total land of 80,000 m2 at GEBKIM Organized Industrial Zone is one step ahead the industry thanks to its environmental friendly approach. Last year, the plant collected around 353.5 tons of waste comprised of paper in addition to glass, plastics, metals, vegetable oil, mineral oil and organics at Gebkim under the motto of ‘Zero Waste’.
The wastes consisted of 209.5 tons of paper, 11.5 tons of glass, 44.9 tons of plastics, 23.2 tons of metals, 720 kilograms of vegetable oil, 63.4 tons of organic wastes and 20 kilograms of mineral oil.
Also, Santa Farma replaced the desk dustbins with shared unit zones at the head office and manufacturing plant at the beginning of last year.
The recycle of the waste resulted in reduction of greenhouse gases by 41.4 tons in addition to saving 1 million 134 thousand 303 kilowatt hours of electricity. Furthermore, the recycling operations guaranteed saving of 3 thousand 562 trees, 44.1 kilograms of raw materials and around 733 barrels of oil.
Santa Farma’s eco-friendly manufacturing plant makes serious contributions to the economic efficiency thanks to the “Zero Waste” project. The project enabled the plant to save electricity amounting to TRY 476 thousand 407 as a result of the recycling of paper, glass, plastic and metal wastes. In addition, recycling efforts made it possible to reduce the storage area by 714.52 m3. Also, 25 thousand 395 kilograms of compost were derived from organic wastes.