Turkish plastics sector pushes landfill ban to boost recycling

摘要

Turkey's plastics industry wants the government to ban recyclable plastics from landfills by 2025, mirroring what the PlasticsEurope trade group is pushing European Union governments to do. The Turkish Plastics Industry Foundation, or Pagev, said the ban would help the environment by reducing littering. But equally or perhaps more importantly, it sees a ban as an economic boost by helping to jump start recycling and providing new sources of plastic in a place heavily dependent on imported raw materials. Pagev made the declaration at a Dec. 3 conference with leaders of the Brussels-based PlasticsEurope association, held on the sidelines of the Plast Eurasia 2015 trade show in Istanbul.