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WASTE MANAGEMENT is one of the most important issues related to the environment in ter-
ms of reducing wastes in the environment where they are generated, sorting them according
to their qualities, collecting them and transporting them to temporary storage areas, recycling
them, disposing of them and finally ensuring their control.
The amount of municipal waste collected in Türkiye is 30.283 million tonnes/year for 2022. The
ratio of the population served by waste disposal and recovery facilities to the municipal popu-
lation was 82% in 2019 and 89% in 2023. The number of municipalities served by sanitary landfill
facilities increased from 1,179 in 2019 to 1,241 in 2023.
In general, packaging wastes constitute 30 per cent by weight and 50 per cent by volume of dis-
carded wastes. The legal, administrative and technical principles for the separate accumulation,
collection, transport, separation and recycling of packaging wastes at source within a certain
management system are determined by the “By-Law on Control of Packaging Wastes (AAKY)”,
which entered into force after being published in the Official Gazette dated 26/06/2021 and
numbered 31523 by the MoEUCC.

AAKY includes the provision that “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 the management of recyclable wastes is
ensured within the scope of the Zero Waste By-law.

According to the Waste Statistics Bulletin of the MoEUCC (2021), According to the declarations
made to the Waste Declaration System, 105,103 facilities declared that they produced 3,031,048
tonnes of hazardous waste and 29,635,926 tonnes of non-hazardous waste in 2021, of which
17,569,247 tonnes were recovered, 14,017,774 tonnes were disposed, 242,731 tonnes were expor-
ted and 837,222 tonnes were in stock.

In 2021, 52,168 tonnes of waste mineral oil, 33,872 tonnes of waste cells-batteries, 16,680 tonnes
of waste vegetable oil were produced. In addition, 31,422 tonnes of end-of-life tyres and 52,129
tonnes of waste electrical and electronic equipment were collected in 2021.

In Türkiye, there are 97 delivery points authorised for end-of-life vehicles according to 2024
data of MoEUCC and 105 temporary storage areas with Temporary Activity Certificate (GFB) and
permit-licence from MoEUCC as of the end of 2023. The number of vehicles registered for scrap-
ping in the End-of-Life Vehicles Disposal Tracking System is 3,117 for 2020 and 4,099 for 2023.
2019 and 2020 medical waste quantities include the data of health institutions (university, ma-
ternity and general-purpose hospitals and clinics) declaring to the MoEUCC Waste Declaration
System (TABS), and 2021 medical waste quantities include the data of all waste generators dec-
laring medical waste. 90,920 tonnes of medical waste was declared to the MoEUCC TABS in 2019
and 135,869 tonnes of medical waste was declared in 2021.

In line with the “Waste Recovery” awareness, 81 waste codes in the cement sector, 15 codes in
the brick sector, 4 codes in the ceramic sector, 6 codes in the concrete sector and 3 codes in the
lime sector were approved for alternative raw material use. In addition, as of the end of 2023, 7
different types of waste from 10 facilities were approved for use as by-products.

According to the results of water, wastewater and waste statistics of mining enterprises, 2022
survey conducted by TURKSTAT, 860.6 million tonnes of mining waste (812 million tonnes in
2018) was generated in mining enterprises in 2022. In 2022, 99.9% of the 860.6 million tonnes
of waste generated in mining enterprises were mineral wastes. In 2022, the amount of stripping
material/rubble was determined as 26.3 million tonnes excluding 834 million tonnes (795 milli-

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