Reaching the all-time highest export records every month of 2021, the Turkish textile industry aims to enhance international stakeholder cooperation with its firm steps on sustainability.
Within this scope, the Turkish Textile Industry has announced its Sustainability Action Plan within its sustainability vision. The Action Plan announced by the Textile and Raw Materials Exporters’ Associations under the leadership of the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TIM) includes articles on firm steps to be taken on some issues such as zero waste management, mainly including recycling of wastewater, energy efficiency, organic cotton production, recycling, circular economy, and corporate social responsibility.
With the Sustainability Action Plan of the Textile Industry announced in July 2021, the sector aims to take an understanding of production, prioritizing nature and the environment with all industry stakeholders as the basis. The primary purpose of the Turkish Textile Industry setting off under the leadership of the Turkish Exporters Assembly with the slogan “We produce for the world without consuming it” is to take the understanding of sustainability- and cyclicality-oriented production like basis in the industry and leave a more livable world for the next generations.
Ahmet OKSUZ, the President of Istanbul Textile and Raw Materials Exporters Association (ITHIB), said, “95% of textile materials can be recycled. Energy consumption of the textile industry can be reduced up to 60%.
Our Turkish fabric companies consume water in approximately half of the world average.
We have very successful Turkish textile companies that make 60% of their production with sustainable resources, adopt zero waste principle, and aim to use sustainable resources at 100% and internalize green convention. Therefore, the phenomenon of sustainability is not a risk for the Turkish textile industry but a transformation process and an opportunity. We are reducing water much more and getting into a great transformation process in zero waste, circular economy, and corporate social responsibility. The leading actor of the European Green Convention will be the Turkish textile industry with its experience in the field of sustainability.
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