Turkey is to bolster its textile waste recycling activities as part of an extension to the Zero Waste Campaign that first launched in the country in 2017.
The campaign, which aims to drive recycling efforts cross-industry, is now being extended to food waste and unused textile products.
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According to local publication Daily Sabah, this stage of the campaign will be run by charity group Turkish Red Crescent. The organisation’s president, Kerem Kinik, told the publication a nationwide campaign will be launched involving partnerships between private and public companies to establish a system for collecting waste textile products. Currently Red Crescent estimates more than 2,500 tons of textile products are discarded daily.
The group is looking at setting up the infrastructure to handle this, which includes recycling items into fabric if they cannot be given to those in need. “Facilities will be set up to obtain cotton, wool and other materials from dumped clothes,” Kinik said.
Turkey is among the world’s leading apparel producers and, according to the re:source by just-style strategic sourcing tool, has around 33,600 garment factories. Its main export market is Europe thanks to its close proximity. In order to boost production and export, the government is targeting infrastructure improvements, adding new railways for easier shipping. There are also plans to increase the number of logistics centres from 8 to 21. These improvements should further shorten already speedy delivery to the EU while mitigating higher labour and input costs.
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