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The disposal of the POP stock in the region is far more complicated and expensive than one imagines. The new owner of this company which produced the stock in question made efforts for years to dispose of it by own means. At this point in time however, the danger is far beyond being a problem of the owner, or even of Turkey.
Good news is that once Turkey became a signatory to the Stockholm Convention, financial assistance became available for disposing of such waste in the framework of international obligations. The “Disposal of POPs Stocks and Reduction of POPs Emissions Project” was collaboratively designed by UNDP and the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization, and financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF).