The Germans and the British have set up a large European garbage dump on the beaches of Antalya

The coast of Turkey suffers from tons of garbage that is taken out of the countries EU and UK. The current environmental disaster is reported by the Turkish edition Alanya Postası, whose journalists fear for the beaches of the resort.

The source writes that European waste (mainly plastic from Germany) is brought to Turkey under the guise of raw materials. But garbage, even in regions of the country remote from tourist areas, is still washed into the sea, after which it is thrown onto beaches all over the Mediterranean.

And this business is quite legal. Exported from According to the documents, raw materials sent to Turkey by the EU are classified as recycled products.

In Alanya Postası, the situation was linked to the ban on the import of foreign garbage introduced by China in 2018, although Europeans have been doing from The Celestial Empire has its own global garbage dump. Hence the search for new logistics routes and Turkey, which receives over 15 million tons of European garbage a year.