Within the scope of Antalya Metropolitan Municipality's Environmentally Friendly Farmer Card Project, farmers who contributed to the protection of the environment by collecting agricultural packaging waste in Kumluca were rewarded. Ahmet Uğurhan, who collected the most points with the waste he collected, came first. Awards such as greenhouse nylon, sticky traps, greenhouse rope and clips were given to the farmers who collected the most agricultural packaging waste.
Within the scope of the "Environmentally Friendly Farmer Card" project, which was initiated for the first time in Turkey by Antalya Metropolitan Municipality for the collection and control of agricultural packaging wastes, which have become a significant problem in terms of environment and human health, farmers used the cards distributed to them and threw the agricultural packaging wastes here by operating the vending machines. The points collected in the system based on the weight of the packages thrown into the vending machines were accumulated in the farmers' cards. Thanks to the cards and key chains distributed to 2 thousand 514 farmers, 1331 kilograms of pesticide packaging waste has been collected with smart vending machines since the day the project started.
14 FARMERS WERE AWARDED
An award ceremony was held for the 14 farmers who collected the most waste in Kumluca in the Environmentally Friendly Farmer Card project. Ahmet Uğurhan, who collected the most points in total, came first, Ali Kılınç came second, and Ertuğrul Kaya came third. At the ceremony held at Kumluca Mehmet Akif Ersoy Cultural Center, Antalya Metropolitan Municipality Mayor's Advisor Lokman Atasoy gave the award to the winner Ahmet Uğurhan. Awards such as greenhouse nylon, sticky traps, greenhouse rope and clips were given to the farmers who collected the most agricultural packaging waste.
THE PURPOSE IS TO SPREAD TO ALL ANTALYA
Fulya Koral, Zero Waste Branch Manager of Antalya Metropolitan Municipality Climate Change and Zero Waste Department, stated that it is important to collect pesticide packaging wastes, which are a problem for human and environmental health, and within the scope of this project, pesticide packaging wastes are recycled into the economy as secondary raw materials. Koral said, “After Kumluca, we started the project in Demre and Finike. We aim to spread it throughout Antalya. "Our sustainable environment-oriented projects will continue," he said.
I WISH IT TO BE WIDESPREAD
Kumluca Chamber of Agriculture President Hidayet Kökce said that clips, nylon, tulle, gloves and traps were distributed to farmers, thus farmers received service thanks to recycling. Kökce said, “We are the Metropolitan Municipality Mayor for establishing such a system for the first time in Turkey. Muhittin BöcekThank you. I hope this becomes widespread. "It is a very important work for our country and our future," he said.
INVITATION TO FARMERS FOR THE PROJECT
Farmer Ahmet Uğurhan, the winner of the Environmentally Friendly Farmer Card competition, stated that he was happy to collect the most agricultural waste and said, “I would like to thank the Metropolitan Municipality for organizing such a project. It is very nice that they directed us to such a project. Since the project started, I started to see less agricultural waste in the environment. I invite our people to be more sensitive on this issue. "Let them participate in the project and our environment will be even cleaner," he said.