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irmanship of the Governor. Sub-working groups were established for clean-up activities and
pollution prevention to be carried out within the framework of the Action Plan. Within the fra-
mework of the Marmara Sea Action Plan, the Integrated Strategic Plan for the Marmara Sea for
the period 2021-2024 has entered into force.
With the implementation of the Zero Waste Blue Movement and Marine Litter Provincial Action
Plans, approximately 220,000 tonnes of marine litter was collected and disposed of by the end
of 2023.

The approval of emergency response plans for coastal facilities in Türkiye started in 2009 and
the risk assessment and Emergency Response Plans of 377 coastal facilities, including 57 facili-
ties in 2023, were approved by the MoEUCC.

Within the scope of the “By-law on Waste Collection from Ships and Control of Wastes” pub-
lished in 2004, as of 2023, waste reception services are provided in 334 coastal facilities and 58
waste reception vessels.

Within the scope of Blue Flag application, in the period between 1994 and 2024, the number of
Blue Flags in Türkiye increased steadily and reached 567 beaches, 27 marinas, 18 tourism boats
and 9 individual yachts by 2024. As of 2024, Türkiye ranked 3 among the 50 member countries
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of the International Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) in terms of the number of
Blue Flag beaches with 567 beaches, after Spain (639) and Greece (625).

In Türkiye, as a result of the works carried out for environmental protection within the scope
of Environmental Wastewater Infrastructure and the financial and technical support provided
by the MoEUCC, there has been a significant increase in the number of municipalities served by
sewerage networks and wastewater treatment plants and the population served by these faci-
lities in recent years.

While the ratio of the population served by sewerage to the municipal population was 69% in
1994, this ratio reached 93% in 2022. While 13% of the municipal population was served by was-
te water treatment in 1994, this ratio reached 68% in 2014 and 78% in 2022.

There are 361 Organised Industrial Zones in Türkiye. Out of 361 OIZs, 281 are active and the was-
tewater of 173 of them is treated and discharged. The number of OIZs with wastewater treat-
ment plants is 123. A total of 1,208 Wastewater Treatment Plant Project Approval procedures
were carried out by the MoEUCC between 2019-2023. The reuse rate of treated wastewater inc-
reased from 2.5% in 2020 to 5.30% in 2023.

Within the scope of the By-law on the Use of Domestic and Urban Sewage Sludge in Soil, 19,978
tonnes km/year of sewage sludge generated in different wastewater treatment plants between
2020-2023 was allowed to be used on 9,989 decares of land.
All articles of the By-Law have become applicable with the declarations made as of 08/06/2015
through the Contaminated Sites Information System established within the scope of the By-
Law on Control of Soil Pollution and Point Source Contaminated Sites. 48,710 Preliminary Ac-
tivity Information Forms were submitted by the activity owners to the system, which can be
accessed at https://ecbs.cevre.gov.tr, by the end of 2023.

In the agricultural nitrate pollution monitoring network established to detect agricultural pollu-
tion and to identify Nitrate Sensitive Areas, monitoring of agricultural nitrate pollution in waters
is carried out at a total of 4,852 stations, including 2,533 surface water and 2,319 groundwater.

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