60 THOUSAND TONS OF PACKAGING WASTE COLLECTED IN ÇANKAYA WITHIN A YEAR

10 February 2020 Monday 10:04

The amount of waste collected in the last year thanks to Çankaya Municipality, which re-evaluates recyclable waste and brings it to the economy, exceeded 60 thousand tons.

Çankaya Municipality, which continuing it’s environmentally friendly works, contributed to the recycling of packaging waste of 60 thousand 846 tons within a year.

The municipality, which ensures the separation of domestic waste in the houses, initiated it’s sorting waste at its source project in the neighborhoods that determined as the pilot regions, which are Yaşamkent, Alacaatlı and Dodurga, continues to collect packaging waste throughout the district. The amount of packaging waste recycled reached 60 thousand 846 tons in the last year.

Çankaya Municipality, which supports its works with posters and brochures for the development of environmental awareness and provides training on these issues in schools, also provided 14 thousand 638 kilos of electronic waste in a year. The municipality, which distributed 2 thousand 601 interior boxes within the same period, collects electrical and electronic equipment, which also distributes the recycling bins in line with the requests from the citizens

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