BRING YOUR WASTE GET YOUR MONEY

Samsun Ilkadim Municipality has signed a new application with "ATOM" in waste collection. The Waste Collection Center, which has recently been piloted, has started to collect certain categories of waste, for which a fee is paid.

Day by day, people are turning the recyclable materials they collect into cash through the waste collection bus within the scope of the "Get Your Waste, Take Your Money" project, which is owned by the people of the district. In addition to contributing to the country's economy, natural resources are also protected thanks to the system, which is used as a mobile waste center for electrical electronic wastes and waste batteries.

A GREAT STEP TO CONTRIBUTE TO NATURE AND ECONOMY

Ilkadim Mayor Necattin Demirtaş, who conveyed information about the practice that the Waste Collection Center (ATOM) separates in 2 different neighborhoods in the same day, recycles the wastes without throwing them away, said, “We bury the wastes (garbage) collected in our country under the ground in the "Regular Storage" Facilities. Some materials that do not dissolve in nature. It remains intact in nature for centuries. We have two important reasons for implementing this application. First, we want to prevent the harm that waste will cause to people and nature, and the other is to prevent recyclable materials from being wasted together with household waste. We remove 350 tons of garbage per day in Ilkadım. To contribute to market shopping by raising awareness of our citizens and encouraging them to zero waste with our "Get Your Waste" project, which we have started, and bringing the products such as paper, plastic and cardboard they have accumulated to our "Waste Collection Center", where we are located in the neighborhood markets, and turning them into cash. Our goal is to separate the garbage and bring it to the economy," he said.

A PROJECT WHERE THE MUNICIPALITY IS AN INTERMEDIATE WITH NO MONETARY GAIN

Underlining that there is no monetary gain for the municipality from this project, Mayor Demirtaş said, “The wastes collected with Atom are delivered to the contracted licensed company by our teams. Our municipality only acts as an intermediary in this application. Our gain is that our cleaning vehicles, which will enter the field every day in cleaning collection works, will enter the field every 3 days. In this way, we will save on diesel and the service life of our vehicles.”

PRICE TARIFF OF RECYCLABLE MATERIALS

The cash to be earned from the weight of the waste to be brought to ATOM is as follows: 1.5 TL per kilo of cardboard, 2 TL per kilo of books, 7 TL per kilogram of plastic bottles, 4 TL per kilogram of nylon, 3.5 TL per kilogram of scrap tin, 4 TL per kilogram of plastic, and kilograms of crates. 3 TL for mixed weight, 3 TL for mixed weight, 0.10 TL for glass and 5 TL for waste vegetable oil.