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Pursuant to Article 12 of the Environmental Law, municipalities may be authorised to inspect
and fine collection, transport, temporary accumulation, storage, recycling.

The MoEUCC delegated authority to Istanbul, Kocaeli, Sakarya, Gaziantep, Bursa, Ordu, Ankara,
Trabzon, Antalya Metropolitan Municipalities in accordance with Article 12 of the Environmental
Law for the inspection of excavation wastes and administrative sanctions under the By-law on
Control of Excavation Soil, Construction and Demolition Wastes.

D.3. Packaging Waste

In Türkiye, the composition of waste is also changing with changing consumption habits, po-
pulation growth, rising living standards and increase in sales of packaged products. In general,
packaging wastes constitute 30% by weight and 50% by volume of discarded wastes.
The change in the waste composition is mostly a result of the increase in packaging wastes such
as paper, cardboard, glass, plastic, metal, etc. in the waste. Considering that many purchased pro-
ducts are presented in paper, metal, glass and plastic packaging materials, separate collection of
wastes at source and recycling of these materials to the economy constitutes an important step
in waste management.

In order to reduce the environmental pollution caused by packaging wastes, which have an im-
portant place among the wastes in Türkiye, and to transform them into economic values, neces-
sary legal and technical arrangements have been made and the legislation, which has been put
into force in a narrower scope since 1991, was started to be implemented in 2005 with the har-
monisation of the European Union Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive 1994/62/EC. The
legal, administrative and technical principles for the separate collection, collection, transport,
separation and recycling of packaging wastes at source within a certain management system
are determined by the “By-law on the Control of Packaging Wastes (AAKY)” published in the
Official Gazette dated 26/06/2021 and numbered 31523 by the MoEUCC.
AAKY includes the provision of “Packaging wastes are collected in accordance with the zero
waste management system practices and Provincial Zero Waste Management System Plans ba-
sed on the provisions of the Zero Waste By-law.” and recyclable wastes are managed within the
scope of the By-law on Zero Waste.
With the By-law regulated with the main purpose of protecting and improving the environ-
ment;
y It is stated that it is essential to reduce the amount of waste to be disposed of by primarily
reusing, recycling, recovering and/or using packaging waste as an energy source,

y By-laws have been made to collect packaging wastes within the zero waste management
system based on the provisions of the Zero Waste By-law, to take material recycling as a ba-
sis in the recovery of packaging wastes, not to send recyclable packaging wastes to landfill
facilities, and not to accept recyclable packaging wastes by landfill facilities,
y Regulatory measures have been taken to reduce environmental risks in the production and
consumption of packaging, especially plastic bags and other disposable packaging, and to
develop clean products and technologies in the production of packaging,
y Within the scope of the principle of extended producer responsibility, the duties and obli-
gations of packaging producers, packaged product marketers and sales points have been
determined, the minimum conditions that the packaging should have and the marking-la-
belling obligations for these packages have been defined, and it has been stated that the

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