HAZARDOUS WASTE GENERATION IN TURKISH PESTICIDE INDUSTRY

摘要

The aim of this study is to assess the contribution of pesticide industry to the total amount of hazardous waste generation in Turkey. While conducting the study the hazardous waste list defined by Commission Decision on Hazardous Wastes, was used as a base format and the average unit hazardous waste generation expressed as kg hazardous waste per ton of production were explored accordingly. In order to realize this target pesticides with highest production levels and the most commonly used production technologies were defined. A detailed investigation was performed to enlighten the applied technologies and processes, raw material and auxiliary inputs, waste generating parts of the production processes, quantity and quality of wastes etc. on a representative manufacturing plant. Data collected by The Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning on the amount of hazardous waste generation arising from industrial installations and the findings of the field study were evaluated together.Pesticide active ingredients namely, methamidophos, humic acid, copper sulphate production facilities and powder, granule and liquid pesticide formulation plants were covered. For pesticide synthesis sector values ranging from 7 to 56 kg of hazardous waste generation per ton of active ingredient produced were obtained. On the other hand 45 to 80 kg of hazardous waste generation per ton production were found for pesticide formulation. The evaluation of the unit hazardous waste generation factors with the capacities of Turkish pesticide plants showed that 27200 - 42800 ton hazardous waste was produced annually from this sector. This amount yielded 2 to 3.2 % of the total hazardous waste generation in Turkey.