New Horizons November 2019 | 页面 23

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We Dump One Third of Our Yield!

Olcay Silahlı, CEO of Fazla Gıda indicated that Turkey of 80 million is the top third country in Europe which produce food waste, and said: “The amount of waste dumped by Turkey into soil is 440 times that of Germany. Today, we dump every 30 of 100 units which we sow.”

Melike Kuş, Soil and Water Conservation Programme Coordinator of Nature Conservation Centre said: “No method is perfect in the process of adapting to climate change. We must generate solutions” and underlined the importance of searching for joint solutions to and building partnerships against the climate crisis.