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General Directorate of European Union and Foreign Relations / Bulletin
General Directorate of European Union and Foreign Relations / Bulletin

ZERO WASTE

BREATHING INTO OUR FUTURE

The Zero Waste project carried out under the auspices of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's
spouse Mrs. Emine Erdoğan is rapidly spreading in Türkiye and around the world. Finally,
with the "Global Zero Waste Goodwill Declaration" signed under the leadership of Mrs.
Emine Erdoğan on the occasion of the 77th General Assembly of the UN, zero waste will be
implemented as a model in the world.

Within the scope of the Zero Waste Project, which has been implemented in our country
since 2017 and is being expanded day by day;

The installation of a zero "Zero Waste Management

waste management system System Plans" have been 18.5 million people were

in 156 thousand institutions prepared for 81 provinces in order trained to convert Zero Waste
to maintain waste management into a lifestyle.
and organizations was
more efficiently.
completed.
Zero Waste Has Made a Great Contribution to Our Air, Water, Soil and Economy
As a result of the 5-year implementation of the project;

347 million trees were 3.9 million tons of 33.8 million tons of 62.2 billion pounds of
prevented from being cut greenhouse gas emissions recoverable wastes were economic gain was
down. were prevented. regained to the economy. achieved.

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While saving 530 million kWh of energy, 572 million m of water, 87 million barrels of oil and 650 million tons of raw
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materials, 69 million m of storage space was saved.
With Zero Waste, which adds fertility to our lands and breathes life to our country and our future, our recovery rate
was increased from 13% in 2017 to 27.2%, while our target for 2023 was determined as 35% and our target for 2035 as 60%.

Our emission reduction target, which was announced as 21% for 2030, has been increased to 41%. Thus, across the country,
approximately 500 million tons of emission reduction will be provided for 2030.

Our Seas Also
Breathe with it

With the Zero Waste Blue Movement launched in 2019, the marine cleaning campaign is effectively continuing in our
28 coastal cities.

With the project, 23 thousand tons of marine litter was collected in the last year, reaching a total of 180 thousand tons.

135 thousand tons of the collected garbage consist of plastics.

As a result of our studies, we observe a decrease in the amount of litter removed from the sea every year.

Zero Waste Conversion Will Accelerate with
Deposit Management System

As an important pillar of waste management, deposit management system will gradually become widespread all over
Türkiye by 2023.

In the last quarter of 2023, a total of 7 thousand deposit return points will be served in all our provinces and districts with
at least 2 thousand deposit return machines and 5 thousand manual collection points.

With the works carried out within the body of the Turkish Environment Agency, 100 billion liras have been contributed to
our economy in 20 years and employment opportunity for 20 thousand citizens will be provided.

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