on the western edge of central anatolia. and they do make lenski marred by wild garbage dumps because there's no effective senate change him. a few 100 meters away is what some call europe's largest plastic waste recycling plant it processes $10000.00 tons of plastic waste a month half of it comes from abroad mostly from germany the demand for plastic in turkey is great but not enough domestic plastic waste is being recycled. if we want to prevent imports we would have to separate our waste properly here in turkey the ministry in charge is currently working on that but in order to get enough garbage we need to import it. it would actually really be worthwhile collecting plastic in turkey a study by the environmental protection organization w w f states that most plastic waste in the mediterranean comes from turkey waste separation here doesn't take place in households but on the streets everywhere in the country there are plastic or paper waste collectors like serdar he spends about 12 hours a day in his rounds and earns up