TURKEY'S ZERO WASTE REGULATION IS TO PREVENT WASTE RATHER THAN WASTE RECYLING...
The main goal of Turkey 's Zero Waste regulation is to prevent waste , rather than waste recycling , said an expert on environment. "Over 26,000 institutions and more than 2 million people across Turkey have been educated on zero waste," Şule Bektaş, an expert at the Zero Waste Management Department of Turkey's Environment and Urbanization Ministry , told at Zero Waste regulation meeting in the capital Ankara. Speaking on the goals of the regulation, she said: "By this, it is intended to re-use waste by recycling, but the main goal with zero waste is not to increase recycling in the society, but to prevent and reduce the amount of waste." Mentioning the three steps, preventing/decreasing waste, re-use and recycling which construct the "zero waste", Bektaş said that long-term products should be designed, the content of hazardous substances in waste should be reduced and the product should not be composed of substances harmful to environment...