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Turkey’s plan to recycle more has made life hard for its informal waste pickers

By Tulin Dzhengiz, Lecturer in Sustainability, Manchester Metropolitan University

Turkey’s 500,000 or so informal waste pickers carry out around 80% of the recycling in the country. These workers, who are also known as çekçekçi, are essential for separating out waste in a country where this is rarely done at source.

But their lives are precarious.…

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