Precise solution to plastic waste in the sea
With the support of Coca-Cola Foundation by the Protection Center and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Clean Mediterranean Society Based Recycling project organized out in Kemer Municipality was realized. The Waste Holder System is designed for Karabucak Deresi, thanks to the Kemer district of Antalya, will be an important function in terms of the awareness of this waste and exploration of public. The system, which is projected as a special solution to a tourist area, consider the conditions of nature and flow, depending on arbitrary, attention to the interior design.
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A part of the water transported by the flow in the Waste Holder System is directed by blocking elements through obstacles and these obstacles keep solid waste in the water. Thus, the sea transmission of solid waste is blocked. The Chairman of the Natural Protection Center Foundation is Uğur Zeydanlı; “It is one of the most important issues of the 21st century to reduce and control plastic waste, especially in one of the seas. As the Nature Protection Center, we tried to implement an innovative approach taking into account the characteristics of the region in the collection of wastes to the sea. Our goal is to turn into a successful and challenging model, and to expand it in different fields. [[
]]]]]]]The Mayor of Kemer Necati Topaloğlu expressed that a part of the waste reaching the sea with increased appetite will also be brought to the economy of waste collected. UNDP Turkey Mukim Representative Claudio Tomasi de UNDP states that they work with private sector and society to improve awareness production and consumption in the framework of the cyclic economy concept, “Waste reduction and disruption are great importance in terms of zero waste positions of Turkey. However, Mediterranean, a natural heritage, has become a sea that increases plastic pollution in the world. The wasteholder in Kemer in the area of the Clean Mediterranean Community-Based Recycling Project spoke to an important step to collect waste from sea reach in streams.
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Coca-Cola Turkey General Manager said: “We are working to convert all our product packages up to 2030 in line with our vision of an unfamiliar world” and we do work for the rest of these packagings. We aim to contribute to a more livable world with clean Mediterranean Community-Based Recycling Project and mobile application Collage.
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In the European Union (EU) every year, with 150 thousand tons of plastic seas. 95% of waste in the Mediterranean form plastic substances and the most of these wastes are carried by streams. Plastic wastes that are transported to sea through fuels do not exist in a short time in nature and negatively affect the marine ecosystem.
It is one of the most effective solutions that the plastic waste is kept in the river mouths, which are the last point that the streams are snacks into the sea. [
Source: Environmental Protection