Gold Standard Documents for Stakeholder Feedback
Mr. Phillippe Le Houerou's (Vice President of The World Bank)Speech in The Investment Advisory Council (IAC)for Turkey, June 10th 2010; "Last year I saw here in Turkey what innovation can achieve. At the Mamak waste processing site in Ankara, Mr. Ali Kantur adapted technologies creatively to turn garbage and bad smells into electricity and even tomatoes—plus profits and jobs! It is an example of how innovation can improve the environment, and be a source of economic growth."
The notoriously foul Mamak landfill is now the source of heat and energy for greenhouses outside Ankara thanks to aid from the World Bank and a garbage-recycling station. If Turkey can focus on alternative energy sources, it could create more jobs, says a World Bank deputy chief.
ITC has started the implementation of the systematic separate collection, transportation and recycling of packaging wastes in Yenimahalle and Mamak districts of Ankara within the context of “Packaging Waste Control Regulation” and in cooperation with ÇEVKO. Door-to-door public disclosure about separate collection and sorting of packaging wastes is ongoing and the packaging wastes are collected on pre-announced dates via “Packaging Waste Collection Vehicles” which transport the wastes to Mamak Packaging Waste Sorting Plant. The packaging waste collection is carried on in accordance with the dissemination plan and 106,000 households have been reached as from January 2009.
