{"id":137597,"date":"2025-02-19T07:59:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T05:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/turkey-said-it-would-become-a-zero-waste-nation-instead-it-became-a-dumping-ground-for-europes-rubbish\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T07:59:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T05:59:34","slug":"turkey-said-it-would-become-a-zero-waste-nation-instead-it-became-a-dumping-ground-for-europes-rubbish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/turkey-said-it-would-become-a-zero-waste-nation-instead-it-became-a-dumping-ground-for-europes-rubbish\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey said it would become a \u2018zero waste\u2019 nation. Instead, it became a dumping ground for Europe\u2019s rubbish"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137597\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>In the summer of 2017, Turkey\u2019s first lady emerged on a stage in the capital of Ankara and announced a grand new plan for \u0130zzettin Akman\u2019s country. Over the next 15 years, Emine Erdo\u011fan proclaimed, Turkey would be turning itself into a \u201czero-waste\u201d nation. Sure, other countries began their pivots to a green future by slashing fuel emissions or constructing windfarms or taxing carbon outputs. But Turkey\u2019s transition, Erdo\u011fan explained, would start elsewhere. It would begin within the homes of 85 million Turkish citizens. Turks would be eliminating their trash.<\/p>\n<p>few months after a truckload of garbage from the UK and Europe was set alight next to Akman\u2019s citrus trees, and just weeks after Erdo\u011fan pronounced Turkey a zero-waste nation, in 2017 the Chinese Communist party informed the world that it too would no longer be accepting trash.<\/p>\n<p>Within months of China\u2019s import ban, Greek garbage began surfacing in Liberia; Italian trash was wrecking the beaches of Tunisia; Dutch plastic started overwhelming Indonesia, its former colony. Poland would be forced to enlist a special police unit to patrol for waste getting trucked in from Germany. Trash exports from Europe to Africa quadrupled, Malaysia became the world\u2019s greatest recipient of US plastic waste and the Philippines threatened Canada with war for dispatching containers of dirty diapers to the capital, Manila. And within less than a year of Erdo\u011fan\u2019s launch of the Zero Waste Project, more than 200,000 tonnes of plastic waste that would have headed to south-eastern China at any point in the previous 30 years made its way instead to south-eastern Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2025\/feb\/18\/turkey-said-it-would-become-a-zero-waste-nation-instead-it-became-a-dumping-ground-for-europes-rubbish\">Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/2-670\/\">Turkey said it would become a \u2018zero waste\u2019 nation. 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