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‘Nobody cares’: the Turkish farmers bearing the burden of UK’s plastic waste problem
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‘Nobody cares’: the Turkish farmers bearing the burden of UK’s plastic waste problem
Britain exported 139,000 tonnes of rubbish to Turkey last year, leaving smallholders and poor districts of Adana to cope with the debris, microplastics and toxic smoke
UK plastic ‘waste colonialism’ found to be polluting Turkey’s farming heartland
Plastic debris clings to the reeds in a waterway metres from where Ayhan*, a farmer in Adana, southern Turkey, is harvesting aubergines. “We get pollution from all sides …
4 Aug, 09:00
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