Microplastics in Fruit and Vegetables: Does German Waste Export to Turkey for "Toxic Circulation"?
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Turkey has a waste problem, and so we in Germany too. Because the waste comes back from here - and after some time in microscopic bites too. Pollution could soon increase significantly.
Turkey continues to be a major transit point for plastic waste shipped from Europe. Approximately 20% of the plastic waste exported by Germany in 2025 will be sent to Türkiye, while the UK is also among the leading countries sending plastic waste to Türkiye.
Sedat Gündoğdu, a biologist from Çukurova University, stated that some of the plastic waste sent from Germany to Türkiye is likely mixed with food and returned to Germany. Turkish...
German plastic waste ends up in Turkish recycling plants – and in the environment. Plastic particles can be transported back to German supermarkets via vegetables, says one researcherTurkish tomatoes are exported to Germany and other European countries. In the vicinity of the fields there are recycling plants in some places - and Germany also sends thousands of tons of plastic waste annually to Turkey for recycling. The biologist Sedat Gündogdu …
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