# Turkey said it would become a ‘zero waste’ nation. Instead, it became a dumping ground for Europe’s rubbish – podcast

## By Alexander Clapp
Read by Philip Arditti

### The Audio Long Read

### Turkey said it would become a ‘zero waste’ nation. Instead, it became a dumping ground for Europe’s rubbish – podcast

When China stopped receiving the world’s waste, Turkey became Europe’s recycling hotspot. The problem is, most plastics can’t be recycled. And what remains are toxic heaps of trash.

By Alexander Clapp. Read by Philip Arditti

* This is an edited extract from  Dirty Deals, International Rivalries and the Scandalous Afterlife of Rubbish by Alexander Clapp, published by John Murray
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