A new study done by our group member Dr Ferhat Büyükdeveci has recently been published in Marine Pollution Bulletin. According to the results, 75% of the total benthic marine litter found in Iskenderun Bay is single-use plastics! In this paper, we investigated the...
A new article written by our group leader Dr Sedat Gundogdu and his colleague Dr Tony R. Walker was published in the highly reputable journal Marine Pollution Bulletin. The paper discussed Turkey’s decision on waste trade with an emphasis on marine plastic...
Turkey has banned the importation of ethylene polymer plastic waste as environmentalists and scientists sound the alarm on the world’s plastic consumption and limits of efficiency of recycling. According to Eurostat Turkey imported around 241 truckloads of...
An investigation by BBC News has found that some plastic waste from Britain sent to Turkey for recycling is instead being dumped and burned on the side of roads. The UK sends more plastic waste to Turkey than to any other country, but critics say the country...
First results of our project Microbeach has been published in Environmental Pollution journal. In this study, 13 coastal areas in Iskenderun Bay (NE Levantine coast of Turkey) were sampled in May 2018 to investigate meso and macroplastic (0.5–123.4 cm) pollution. A...
