Despite growing büyüyen societal toplumsal and official awareness farkında olma in Istanbul about the necessity gereklilik and benefits yarar of recycling, many are still confused by the concept of "going green' in the city.
By law kanun gereği,Turkish municipalities belediye at all levels are required to ensure sağlamak that household ev and packaging waste atık are collected toplanmak separately ayrı ayrı and that they are then sent to the appropriate uygun waste-collection, waste-separation and recycling facilities tesisat. of licensed firms. Moreover, municipalities are required to provide infrastructure altyapı for recycling other kinds of waste, such as vegetable oil, batteries, tires,construction inşaat waste, as well as electronic and medical tıbbi waste.
Municipalities, however, do not make a great enough effort to inform bildirmek citizens vatandaş about recycling programs and provide bags to help sort ayıklamak the waste, Taşdemir said, adding that he would be diligent gayretli a recycler if the authorities had given him the capabilities kapasite to do so.
The Daily News sought aramak information about the recycling services of all 39 Istanbul district ilçe municipalities, but after two weeks, only 21 provided information about their services and only six gave full, detailed reports.
In general, the research suggested that while some municipalities have significantly önemli derecede progressed ilerlemek in their recycling projects, others have shown little or no progress at all.