2025-03-14
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Turkey said it would become a zero waste nation.
Instead, it became a Dumping Ground for.
Europe's Rubbish By Alexander Clapp Read by Philippa Ditti On a chilly Evening in late 2016,
a few miles from the Turkish city of Adana,
a Kurdish farmer named Izzettin Akman was sitting on the.
Second floor balcony of his concrete ranch.
House when a construction truck backed up.
To the edge of his citrus groves.
Paused, then dumped a great load of.
Rubbish along the roadside.
Before he pulled away, the truck's driver set a paper bag on fire and.
Tossed it on top of the garbage.
Triggering an outpouring of flames blacker than.
The night sky into which they ascended.
Akman leapt up, put on his sandals.
And sprinted out along his dirt driveway toward the crackling trash pile.