What is zero waste?

Disposal of wastes without evaluating in the process of recycling and recovery leads to serious material losses both in material and energy. While the world’s population and living standards are increasing, consumption is inevitably increasing. This situation disturbs the balance of the world by increasing the usage of natural resources and our limited resources. Considering this situation, the importance of efficient use of natural resources becomes more significant. For this reason, in recent years, zero waste application works have become widespread both in the individual and institutional areas and in the municipality.

Advantages to be provided by taking zero waste approach as basis;

• Increase productivity
• Increased performance due to clean environment
• Reducing costs cause of waste is avoided
• Reducing environmental risks
• Ensuring that employees have a sense of sensitive consumer as they contribute to the development of environmental awareness within the organization
• Ensuring that the institution has the title of Environmentalist in national and international markets, thus increasing its prestige.