THE FUTURE OF WASTE MANAGEMENT

By evaluating all the points in our store operations with Fazla and the effective solutions they provide, we continuously improve our collaboration. Especially through our efforts to prevent waste, minimize disposal, and promote recycling, our donation operations aimed at reaching many in need have quickly grown to a significant volume. Alongside these goals, we have made significant progress in achieving a waste-free point in waste product management. Fazla, with whom we started working shortly after its establishment, has always been one of our solution-oriented and beneficial partners. We are delighted to share a partnership where we create economic, social, and environmental awareness along with our sense of responsibility towards the environment.

Metro Turkey always places respect for people and nature at the forefront in its sustainability focus. With our partnership with Fazla, we have implemented food for people and business that respects the nature with many different projects such as resale, donation, animal feed in our stores using sustainable and technology-based infrastructures of Fazla. Not only we managed waste in our stores and contributed sustainability but also developed complementary projects with our suppliers and business partners in the HoReCa sector to improve waste reduction, management and reporting processes. We hope and work to grow our cooperation with Fazla in the coming years, creating accelerating impact each year.

We have started our partnership with Fazla in 2017, with donation operations running from a single store. Throughout or 6-year journey, we have established and developed a system which enabled us to deliver over 10.000 tonnes of food to people in need by donating from more than 400 stores every day with the digital donation platform. We have established a strong and a new generation waste management infrastructure, which we aim to scale to all Migros stores and warehouses, by applying different waste management solutions. In reaching our goals of "Good Future and Sustainability", Fazla always takes its place among the key partners of Migros.

At Nestlé, we believe it is our responsibility to ensure that present and future generations have a more livable world, with our understanding of “Creating Shared Value”. Joining our forces with the right stakeholders provides more meaningful gains on food waste, which has become a global problem, in our sustainability journey. In this context, we are fighting against food loss and waste with the support of innovation and technology with the "Increased Food is Our Future" project, which we started in 2019 with Excess. Thanks to our project, we have evaluated 6,181 tons of food and prevented 2,357 tons of carbon emissions so far. We are happy to pursue the good every day with Fazla in solving a global issue that affects the earth and concerns all humanity.

We are thrilled to have a partner like Fazla that offers end-to-end and effective solutions for waste management and digital traceability of processes, the importance of which is increasing day by day for the future of our world and the responsible use of our natural resources. Together, we will continue to develop business models that make a difference so that textile waste can be reintegrated into the life cycle in the most value-added way.