One of the 3 truck dumps of Europe keeps coming to Turkey

Plastic waste-garbage imports which the government claims it will control by “supervision” instead of prohibition, are poisoning Turkey’s territory. in 2021, 518 thousand tons of plastic waste were imported from Europe alone.

One of the 3 truck dumps of Europe is coming to Turkey – Turkey’s plastic waste import problem is turning into gangrene despite all efforts and irreversibly poisoning Turkey’s land. It turned out that the government’s approach of “audit” instead of prohibition did not yield results, and in 2021 Turkey took the first place in the import of plastic garbage waste.

WE ARE THE FIRST IN ‘GARBAGE’ COLLECTION

According to the Greenpeace report, Turkey took the first place in Europe’s garbage collection this year by importing over 518 thousand tons of plastic waste from Europe alone in 2021. According to these figures, Turkey has also received more than a third of the European plastic garbage this year.

GREENPEACE REPORT WARNS ABOUT CANCEROGENIC SUBSTANCES IN SOIL

As this garbage poisons the lands of Turkey with carcinogenic substances, the environment ministry has not given details and said “There is no poison in Adana’s soil” on the contrary to the Greenpeace report which shows there are substances such as dioxins and furans scientifically known to cause serious health problems such as cancer. Although the authorities in Turkey say that they have made significant progress in plastic waste imports through strict controls, Eurostat and UK Trade Info 2021 data say the opposite.