‘Nobody cares’: the Turkish farmers bearing the burden of UK’s plastic waste problem | Plastics
Plastic particles clings to the reeds in a waterway metres from the place Ayhan*, a farmer in Adana, southern Turkey, is harvesting aubergines. “We get pollution from all sides here,” he says, referring to the plastic recycling zone upstream, in addition to a close-by textile plant that he suspects is making the water acidic. “The…