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Court blocks access to reports about selling of clothes donated to earthquake survivors

Court blocks access to reports about selling of clothes donated to earthquake survivors

A journalist revealed that some clothes intended for earthquake survivors and clothes put in old cloth containers were handed over to a textile recycling company.

New regulations trouble Türkiye's informal recycling workers

New regulations trouble Türkiye's informal recycling workers

Türkiye has about 500,000 informal recycling workers who are responsible for around 80 percent of the recycling in the country. The government's attempts to regulate informal waste picking cause some new problems.

7 October 2022 Wouter Massink

TurkStat: 56 Million Tonnes of Waste Disposed of, 47 Million Tonnes Recycled in 2018

TurkStat: 56 Million Tonnes of Waste Disposed of, 47 Million Tonnes Recycled in 2018

56 million tonnes of waste, of which 17 million tonnes was hazardous, was disposed of in 159 controlled landfill sites having a total capacity of 799 million cubic meters, according to a recent survey.

2 December 2019