Today, as part of the European education project E-trust, we went to a waste incineration company called IZAYDAS in Izmit, Turkey.
And this is, among many other things from cultural behaviour to governmental programmes, what I learned today:
- IZAYDAS bought the facilities from a German company. (So there is a market for second hand waste incinerators.)
- The Turkish export their waste to German waste incinerator factories as it is cheaper to export than to buy and/or build own factories.
- German waste incinerator factories don't have enough waste!
- Italians export their waste to Germany as well.
- IZAYDAS is the first waste incineration company in Turkey. It is a pilot project and now Turkey wants to implement more factories like this one.
- All data from the factory is available online publicly.
- They do not accept radioactive or nuclear waste nor cadavers.
Men in Turkey retire after 22 years of working, women after 20 years. They get a lump sum plus monthly retirement money based on work income. But this might change soon.
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