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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 12 March 2023)
Expert Garbage Extrapolator
Ali Rıza Öner, the head of the 4T Platform (clean environment, clean
energy, clean agriculture and clean nourishment), and a waste
management expert, related that after the earthquake that devastated
11 provinces, 2.7 million people were displaced. Öner, the business
development chief of the company ITC, which disposes of waste in
13 cities in Turkey, added that "we can estimate population increases
and decreases based on changes in the amount of garbage." (!)
"In Ankara, there has been a 600-ton increase in the daily amount of
garbage so this tells us that about 600,000 people have migrated here.
The largest increases have been in Altındağ, Keçiören, Yenimahalle
and Çankaya districts."
With regard to Antalya province, Öner explained that "there has been
a tremendous migration to Alanya district since the earthquake, with a
daily increase of about 50 tons of garb, or, in other words, an increase
in the district's population of 50,000 people. In Antalya city there has
been a daily increase of 100 tons of garbage, meaning a population
increase of 100,000 people."
As for Istanbul, Öner stated that the city's daily production of garbage
amounts to 16,000 tons but this amount has not changed significantly
since the earthquake, indicating that the earthquake victims have shied
away from Istanbul because it, too, is in an earthquake zone.
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