Osmangazi Municipality awarded plaques to the headman, teachers and students who collected the most waste batteries, oil and packaging in the district on March 30, International Zero Waste Day.
In the first first class waste development center of Bursa, established by Osmangazi Municipality on an area of 5 thousand square meters in Demirtaş, wastes are separated into 14 different categories and brought into the economy. So far, 108,177 tons of packaging waste has been collected in the center, preventing the cutting of 1 million 50 thousand trees, and 818 thousand liters of vegetable waste oil has been collected to prevent pollution of 818 million cubic meters of clean water. In addition, 6 thousand 120 decares of agricultural land was saved from pollution by collecting 85 tons of waste batteries.
152 tons of electronic waste was collected, preventing the mixing of hazardous wastes with nature, making these wastes ready for use and sending them to licensed facilities. While 1 ton of waste medicine was collected at Demirtaş Waste Center in 2021, preventing these medicines from being mixed with nature, 2,146 tonnes of collected waste clothes were delivered to those in need. In addition, 10 tons of end-of-life tires were collected at the center.
On March 30, International Zero Waste Day, Demirtaşpaşa Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School, which collected the most waste in Osmangazi district, awarded plaques to its teachers and students, as well as the headmen of Hürriyet, Nalbantoğlu and Dumlupınar Neighborhoods. The muhtar, teachers and students who collect the most waste received their plaques from Osmangazi Deputy Mayor Halil Döner. In addition, Demirtaşpaşa Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School, teachers, students and mukhtars were introduced to the waste center at Demirtaş Waste Retrieval Center and a seminar on zero waste was given.
Osmangazi Deputy Mayor Halil Döner, who stated that they are working for a cleaner and more environmentally friendly Osmangazi, said, “Within the scope of combating climate change, the “Zero Waste Project”, Turkey’s largest environmental movement in 2017, under the auspices of our President, Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s wife, Mrs. Emine Erdoğan. As Osmangazi Municipality, we received a Zero Waste Certificate for both our municipal units and the entire district. “Zero Waste”, which is one of the steps we take for the future of not only our city, but also our country and even our world, is an important responsibility movement initiated for the future of humanity.
“We ranked 2nd among municipalities in Türkiye”
Stating that it should be known that wastes are a product of a sustainable life philosophy in harmony with nature, with the awareness that they are actually a source of energy, Döner said, “We broke new ground in Turkey with the Mobile Waste Delivery Vehicle Project, which we launched in 2013. Every day, our citizens leave their wastes in the specially dressed waste collection vehicle located in a neighborhood. Thus, our citizens residing far from the Waste Retrieval Center reach the mobile waste collection vehicle that comes to their neighborhood and deliver the determined wastes to the authorities. The work of 72 municipalities in Turkey in 2020 was evaluated based on the amount of e-waste (lighting equipment) collected and our municipality; In the 5th group (Lighting equipment) waste electrical and electronic goods category, it became the 2nd in Turkey among the municipalities that contributed the most to the system according to the amount of e-waste collected. Moreover; We continue to organize necessary training seminars in schools and in our neighborhoods so that recyclable wastes and hazardous wastes are not thrown into the garbage, they are separated at the source and added to the recycling system. We are happy to be among the municipalities that collect the most recycling and waste in Turkey.
Source: (BYZHA) – Beyaz News Agency
