As the Vintana family, acting with the awareness of the effects of climate change on our world and our environment, we have implemented Vintana Sustainability Projects in order to leave a livable world and natural resources to future generations. In this context, we carry out measurement and regulatory activities to reduce our carbon footprint at every step from production in our factories to distribution to our consumers, and provide added value to life.
SUPPORT FOR ECOLOGICAL AGRICULTURE
We reduce the harmful environmental impacts of agriculture and support sustainable agricultural practices by protecting the soil with practices that will ensure the continuity of our raw material supply process. We take care of each plant, which is extracted from the soil and is the raw material of our products, and we ensure the quality of our raw materials by acting in conscious co-operation with our farmers from the field to the production process.
As part of our responsibility towards the society, the environment and our consumers, we keep the raw materials and materials used in Vintana production under supervision and surveillance, and have them regularly analysed by laboratories.
LOW CARBON TECHNOLOGIES IN OUR FACTORIES
At our Vintana production facilities, we aim to become a registered zero-waste organisation, achieving a net zero carbon footprint by 2030. To achieve this goal, we invest in energy efficiency projects in our production facilities and buildings and evaluate renewable energy supply as well as renewable energy installation opportunities for use in our operations.
We maximise the use of daylight and minimise the use of electricity by enlarging the windows in our factories, warehouses and offices.
In addition, within the scope of our greenhouse gas reduction efforts for 2022, we have reduced our carbon footprint by nearly 38% compared to the previous year by meeting our electricity needs from renewable energy sources and replacing the lighting materials we use with environmentally friendly lighting materials that give more light and consume less energy.
RECYCLABLE PACKAGING
In order to minimise the environmental impact caused by the packaging of our Vintana products, we are working to reduce the amount of packaging, increase reuse and recycle.
The packaging of our Vintana products is produced from environmentally recyclable packaging, and as of 2020, we have replaced the standard materials we use in our cargo boxes and packaging with higher-quality, environmentally friendly materials.
REDUCTION OF PACKAGING
We focus on less resource consumption and the use of recyclable materials in packaging processes. We try to design the packaging volume and weight of our products to minimise waste and support reuse and recycling efforts to reduce our environmental impact caused by packaging processes.
Instead of using thick and plump packaging for our product packaging, we have started to use more innovative and economical packaging styles to protect the quality and transport safety of our products.
FIGHT AGAINST PLASTIC
We minimise the use of plastic in our Vintana products and make sure that the plastic used is recyclable plastic. We continue to focus on less resource consumption and the use of recyclable materials in packaging processes, accelerate our R&D studies and continue our fight against plastic. We ban the use of nylon bags in our factories and offices and use bags and carrying materials made from environmentally friendly and recyclable materials.
GREEN LOGISTICS
We reduce our environmental impact through route optimisation and efficient fuel transport practices and work in cooperation with our logistics suppliers.
In order to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions from transport and transport processes, we work with our business partners in the field of distribution and logistics to evaluate our transport options with clean technology.
As of 2022, within the scope of our project to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation and transport process, we have decided to consolidate international orders and only shipments over a certain amount. With this decision, we aim to reduce our carbon footprint resulting from transportation by at least 30%.
GREEN OFFICE APPLICATIONS
We sort garbage and paper for recycling in our factories, warehouses and offices, and we direct our distributor partners to sort their garbage and dispose of it in zero waste equipment. We monitor the electricity, natural gas, water and paper we consume in monthly reports, and we make efforts to minimise consumption by tracking both the type of consumption and the greenhouse gas equivalent CO2-e.
The internal structure of our headquarters has been arranged in an environmentally friendly manner, and we have ensured energy savings by renewing the air conditioners, refrigerators and dishwashers we use in all our offices and factories with energy-friendly AA Plus and Prosmart Inverter Compressor products. We reduce our carbon footprint by saving by monitoring hourly consumption with the air conditioning system, energy analyser application and taking positive action when necessary.
We regularly provide in-house trainings on the consumption habits of our employees and the environmental impact of these habits and focus on green consumption.
INCLUDING OUR WOMEN IN THE WORKFORCE
We continue to raise awareness and improve the opportunities we offer for women's empowerment so that gender equality is adopted by all Vintana employees and business partners.
Although we are the most successful male brand in the sector, we encourage more female employees in our teams by saying that professions have no gender, and we think that our colleagues with a majority of women always provide a colourful, creative and strong corporate structure. For this purpose, 80% of our employees at our headquarters in Istanbul and 64% of our employees at our production facilities are our valuable women.
RIGHTS, HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OUR EMPLOYEES
Our R&D and Vintana production team, who develop our Vintana products with their knowledge, expertise and innovative perspectives, thus transforming the raw materials processed into a brand that our consumers love and trust, and our valuable employees in our Istanbul and London offices, which are the cornerstone of our success, always ensure occupational health and safety, harmonious working environments, and guarantee their peace and well-being.
We provide opportunities for our employees in all processes, starting from recruitment, labour relations, remuneration, the right to participate in vocational training, promotion, retirement and all employment conditions.
ANIMAL FRIENDLY PRODUCTS
Respect and care for animal rights is a cornerstone of Vintana's product safety philosophy and none of Vintana's products are tested on animals.
