ATG awarded ISO 14064-1:2018 certification

From left: Dharshika Arumabadhu – DGM, Quality Assurance of ATG Ceylon Pvt. Ltd, Jamaal Abdeen – Project Manager of ATG Group of Companies, Sisira Kumara – Director, Quality Assurance of ATG Group of Companies, Sunil Mendis – Director, Research & Development of ATG Group of Companies, Sanjeewa Sandaruwan – Sustainable Development Engineer, ATG Ceylon PVT LTD, Dixy Gamage – Senior Manager, Quality Assurance of ATG Ceylon Pvt. Ltd

The ATG Group of Companies, one of the distinguished glove manufacturing companies in the world, has been awarded the ISO 14064-1:2018, the ISO-accredited GHG Carbon Footprint Verification.
The certification recognizes ATG’s years-long successful implementation of a robust Environment Management System that extended to the sustainable reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. 
The Group had accordingly established a comprehensive carbon reduction framework to monitor, verify, quantify, and report on greenhouse gas emissions and also measure the effectiveness of its efforts. It scrutinizes the total GHG emission by covering ISO’s all four emission categories (scope 1 to 4) including purchased electricity, fuel consumption, upstream and downstream transportation, waste disposal as well as water consumption.
Chief Sustainable Development Engineer at ATG, Sanjeewa Sandaruwan commented, “Significant efforts by ATG to quantify the Carbon Footprint of its selected facilities are part of a systematic sustainability action plan within the company. It is also a long-term commitment to reduce our environmental impact and become a more responsible corporate citizen, whilst ensuring our business entity is sustainable, ethical, and eco-friendly. We consider this, a milestone of our journey towards carbon-neutral manufacturing or net zero, at the end of the day.” 
Keeping in line with the ideology of circular economy, the ATG Group had also been able to construct Sri Lanka’s largest water treatment plant, to filter and purify the water used in the production process with a successful monthly average purification capacity of 72,000 cubic meters.
The Group also boasts of being the owner of Sri Lanka’s only In-vessel Rotating Composter which converts bio-wastewater sludge into organic fertilizer within two weeks. Further, ATG’s Solid Waste Management Policy converts sludge into different types of raw material such as rubber, while harmful incineration of these materials is reduced, as 
much as possible. 
ATG has observed, over the years, that its environmental sustainability efforts had created a number of indirect job opportunities and uplifted grassroots-level entrepreneurs.