Environmental Management
Full compliance with the regulations regarding environmental protection...
Aster Textile Group established the environmental management system to formalise the monitoring of its strategy, targets and activities related to its environmental performance. The system ensures that these practices are implemented simultaneously at all Aster facilities. Work is underway to improve the Group’s environmental management program. Management meetings are planned where environmental issues will be reviewed on an annual basis. With this effort, Aster Group aims to review and enhance the traceability of its environmental performance criteria.
In line with Aster’s sustainability strategy, work has commenced to reduce the carbon footprint at Aster facilities. The Green Office Work Group was set up to raise environmental awareness among employees. The Work Group’s activities include administering training programs to raise environmental awareness among the staff and their families. These efforts are aimed at changing consumption patterns both in employees’ professional and private lives, thereby reducing individual and institutional carbon footprints.
As a manufacturer, Aster is a member of the Higg Index, developed to accurately measure sustainability performance. Within this scope, Aster conducts both the Facility Environmental Module (FEM) and the Social and Labor Convergence Program (SLCP) assessments and has been having these data independently verified since 2019.
ASTER’S CARBON FOOTPRINT
For the measurement and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions at the organisational level, Scope-1 and Scope-2 greenhouse gas emissions are calculated internally according to the ISO 14064-1 Standard. Currently, tracking energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions per product enables the development of a roadmap for higher efficiency. HIGG Plant Environmental Module Index score is also improved by covering more sections in detail. Since 2021, all electricity has been generated from 100% renewable sources certified by the International Green Energy Certificate (I-REC), reducing total greenhouse gas emissions by 50% in Scope-1 and Scope-2. In 2023, 55% of electricity consumption will be met by the company through a rooftop solar energy investment with an installed capacity of 4 MW.