Turkey: European waste, ..

Turkey: European waste, ..

Stacks of compressed plastic bottles at a recycling plant November 28, 2020 in Gaziantep, Turkey (AFP – Yasin AKGUL)

In 2019, the majority of this waste came from the United Kingdom (154,000 tonnes), Italy (89,000 tonnes), Belgium (86,000 tonnes), Germany (67,000 tonnes) and France (57,000 tonnes).

Concretely, this translates into wrappers of pain au chocolat, packages of unused coarse salt or tubes of mayonnaise lying in illegal dumps …

https://www.sciencesetavenir.fr/nature-environnement/turquie-les-dechets-europeens-manne-economique-et-plaie-environnementale_149954

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