According to the polluter-pay principle in the By-Law on Packaging Waste Control (PWC), the responsibility for bearing the cost of collecting packaging waste is assigned to the enterprises that place their products on the market in packaged form, and it is of great importance that these enterprises are registered.
GRAPH 88- AMOUNT OF PACKAGING RELEASED TO THE MARKET BY YEARS AND AMOUNT OF RECOVERED PACKAGING WASTE ACCORDING TO THE PACKAGING WASTE DECLARATION SYSTEM
TABLE 14- RESULTS OF PACKAGING AND PACKAGING WASTE PRODUCED AND RELEASED TO THE MARKET IN 2019
|
Waste Code |
Waste Type |
Produced Packaging Amount (ton) |
Released to the market (ton) |
Under B-1 (1)
Recovered Actual (ton) Recovery Rate (%) |
Released to the market (ton) Under B-2 (2) |
Supplied (ton) Under C(3) |
|
|
15.01.02 |
PLASTIC |
3,009,487 |
1,037,558 |
586,832 |
57 |
95,226 |
19,053 |
|
15.01.04 |
METAL |
385,941 |
132,524 |
71,234 |
54 |
89,601 |
15,728 |
|
15.01.05 |
COMPOSITE |
300,266 |
104,439 |
60,749 |
58 |
13,039 |
0 |
|
15.01.01 |
PAPER/ CARDBOARD |
4,023,3994 |
2,065,781 |
1,125,613 |
54 |
25,134 |
11,538 |
|
15.01.07 |
GLASS |
1,608,669 |
871,426 |
276,037 |
32 |
36,337 |
149,926 |
|
15.01.03 |
WOOD |
670,125 |
561,259 |
180,229 |
32 |
2,929 |
85,052 |
|
|
TOTAL |
9,998,483 |
4,772,988 |
2,300,693 |
48 |
262,266 |
281,327 |
Source: The Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change, General Directorate of Environmental Management,2021
GRAPH 89- THE RATES OF PACKAGES IN THE MARKET UNDER B-1 IN 2019 ACCORDING TO THEIR TYPES
Source: The Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change, General Directorate of Environmental Management,2021
Municipalities are obliged to collect or have collected packaging waste in accordance with By-Law. They shall prepare packaging waste management plans showing bywhom, how and when packaging waste will be collected and transported separately from other waste at source and submitted to the Ministry. In the context of these studies, conducted for the first time in 2008, the number of municipalities that prepared and submitted their plans to the Ministry in accordance with the packaging waste management plan format and whose plans were approved is shown in Graph- 90.
GRAPH 90- NUMBER OF MUNICIPALITIES WITH PACKAGING WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN
Source: The Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change, General Directorate of Environmental Management,2021
Note: Municipalities were reorganized under Law No. 6360.
