PepsiCo Türkiye Recycles the Water Used in Its Factories

PepsiCo Turkey is working to restore operational water used in its factories to basins with the “One Drop One World Project”. The company, in collaboration with the Nature Conservation Center, continues the project, which started in the Berdan basin where the Tarsus factory is located in 2023, and continues in the basins where the Manisa and Izmir factory is located in 2024 and the Adana factory is located in 2025, and continues to spread to all basins where PepsiCo factories are located in Türkiye.

PepsiCo Türkiye Corporate Affairs and Sustainability Senior Director Esra İren: “We must work harder to secure the future of water and create more positive impact on this critical issue through collaborations.”

Emphasizing that water use in industry and agriculture is one of the important headings in the management of this resource, PepsiCo Turkey Corporate Relations and Sustainability Senior Director Esra İren said, “In order to contribute to securing the future of water on the sustainability path we have determined; we carry out many studies from efficient water use to the repair of ecosystems, and we cooperate with expert organizations in this field. With this approach, we continue to increase the social impact we create not only in our own production processes but also with the projects we carry out in various fields, especially agriculture. With the awareness that water risk is high in agriculture, we have invested in pressurized irrigation technologies such as drip irrigation, which will reduce water use, and expanded the use of these systems and reduced water use in agricultural production by 25% in the basins where our factories are located.”

“With the One Drop One World Project, we are recycling up to 100% of the used water back to its original land.”

PepsiCo Turkey, Corporate Relations and Sustainability Senior Director Esra İren, who emphasized that they aim to restore the amount of operational water used in PepsiCo factories to the basins, said; “With the “One Drop One World Project”, which we took the first step in the Berdan basin in 2023 in cooperation with the Nature Conservation Center, we are working to restore the water we use in our factory in Tarsus to the basin and our farmers. We have expanded this project starting from Tarsus and then to Manisa, İzmir and Adana. In this context, while we restored 2024% of the water used in our Manisa factory, 100% of the water used in our İzmir factory and 94% of the water used in our Tarsus factory in 58, we also supported our farmers in the regions where the project took place with modern irrigation methods, contributing to the protection and efficient use of water.”

PepsiCo Turkey draws attention with its works carried out under the titles of “Using less water, recycling water and increasing access to clean water” and its collaborations to increase the impact to be created in water management. PepsiCo Turkey is collaborating with the Nature Conservation Center, which has been working for more than 20 years for the effective protection of biodiversity and sustainable management of natural resources in the “One Drop One World Project”. Since its establishment, the Nature Conservation Center has been focusing on developing new tools and methods for the protection of biodiversity, sustainable use of resources and adaptation to climate change by monitoring the practices in different parts of the world. DKM also supports the project with the applicable solutions it has developed for the “One Drop One World Project”.

Source: HORECA TREND and PepsiCo Türkiye