place in households but on the streets everywhere in the country there are plastic or paper waste collectors like serdar he spends about 12 hours a day in his rounds and earns up to $300.00 euros a month. young ensuring. we collect pet bottles sheet metal cardboard and nylon for recycling everything people using every day life. said our benefits from his compatriots lack of environmental awareness only an estimated 40 to 50 percent of turkish garbage is separated the rest ends up in huge landfills near istanbul but with the piles of plastic waste continuing to grow the government is trying to get a grip on it since the beginning of the year consumers have to pay for plastic bags and supermarkets environmentalists complain that that's not enough. it's not just about recycling plastic it's about limiting the production of plastic products.