SEALED NATURE

Sealed Nature: Innovations Beyond Possibilities, Results Beyond Dreams

Authors

Sena Nur Çakır

Sena Nur Çakır

Selin Durum

Selin Durum

Hadis Gordbagli

Hadis Gordbagli

nailahsayidatul umil

nailahsayidatul umil

School

Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University

Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University

Professor

Semih Ceyhan

Semih Ceyhan

Global Goals

12. Responsible Consumption and Production

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Summary

Their goal is to completely replace waste production, which aligns with UN Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns, as one of the goals is to significantly reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse by 2030. They are transforming the waste into a more useful way within the factory and recycling it. The innovation of this company uses both recycling materials to protect nature and cardboard instead of plastic straws for fruit juices.


Innovation

Mr. Sezgin Saza interviewed with us about what innovation means to him, "This doesn't mean creating something from scratch that doesn't exist. In this respect, the word 'innovation' does not fit well. We can call it giving a new use to an existing thing or creating something completely different by combining existing structures. Our innovation is to produce recyclable packaging to produce environmentally friendly packaging."

He explained how they started to produce this innovation. Saza explains that, "we started this innovation with the aim of minimizing the amount of waste as a facility that produces a lot of waste per day and turning the existing waste into something useful. We do not use any protective additives in the content of our plastic bag packages. Also we recycle our straws by turning them into paper straws, and we use recyclable straws that disappear quickly and do not harm the nature. We started using them in mass production. In creating this innovation, the company's engineer and designer groups took part in the R&D departments and devoted time to product development."


Sealed Nature: Innovations Beyond Possibilities, Results Beyond Dreams

SEALED NATURE

Inspiration

The original idea emerged as follows, as Mr. Sezgin Saza stated that they set out to reduce the use of plastic with the slogan of respect for nature in all packaging groups they use, and have completely eliminated the use of plastic. As zero waste projects in different areas attracted their attention, they started to apply their work to their own products. The result is the use of completely recyclable straws. It is a truly inspiring idea.

Overall impact

Saza explains that the "Implications are as follows: in fact, this is an important step for our plant first. Because the high amount of waste is a big minus for a company. When we thought about how we could transform this, we took a step and started. In the long term, ensuring that the amount of waste harmful to the environment is significantly reduced. As the damage caused by harmful waste to the world and nature decreases, our world will last longer. Our world will be greener, and this will positively affect our lives, health and many other things in the long run. The impact of this innovation on all of us in the long term is very positive. "

He continues by suggesting, "A short-term effect is the increased interest in the company from those who attach importance to this idea and prefer environmentally friendly consumption."


Business benefit

These environmentally friendly productions they started were very beneficial for them and the environment. They started to receive demand from the organic market in European countries and the USA, which reveals a high level of importance to low-impact waste and recycling. With the increase in environmental awareness in the world, environmentally friendly production began to see more demand. This means that it is environment and nature friendly. It has become very profitable for manufacturing companies. Sealed Nature is growing day by day with this leadership.

As they developed in the field of recycling, the demands they received from new markets helped them a lot in terms of their company image.

Social and environmental benefit

We can explain the impact of innovation on the environment as follows: It creates a greener world by starting to consume less harmful waste, and the damage to nature is significantly reduced. This is very important and vital for our world.

Its impact on society is as follows: it contributes to people and our society becoming more conscious and sensitive to our environment. A society that is a sensitive and conscious consumer will protect our nature and our world better. And it also contributes to our lives with industrial production using raw materials that dissolve very quickly in nature.

Thanks to environmentally friendly production and consumption, our world will be greener and healthier.

Interview

Sezgin Saza, Manager

Business information

SEALED NATURE

SEALED NATURE

Ankara, Turkey, TR
Business Website: https://sngroup.com.tr/tr_tr/
Year Founded: 2022
Number of Employees: 11 to 50

Sealed Nature produces completely natural, completely additive-free fruit juice, fruit puree and various other products. It operates in Ankara, Turkey, and serves various countries of the world. They also provide services in different product and packaging categories. They have been providing services with their work, production and technologies in their fields for years