Garbage

Tragedy struck this morning on Tsarigradsko Shosse Blvd in Plovdiv as a woman lost her life after being struck by a municipal garbage truck. The incident occurred around 9:50 AM, leaving the victim deceased at the scene. The woman's identity remains unknown at present.

With people overwhelmed by the heat flocking to forests and beaches to cool off, approximately 18 tons of garbage have been removed from the Belgrade Forest over the weekend, Istanbul Municipality has reported, while a group of volunteers in the southern province of Antalya cleared up Konyaaltı Beach from trash.

With the increase in temperatures during the summer, more people in Istanbul are spending time in open areas and leaving their rubbish behind, resulting in a significant environmental issue for the city, local media has reported.

According to reports, during the scorching hot days in Istanbul, most residents flock to green areas and leave without picking up after themselves.

As trash and debris have piled up alongside the stream in the western province of İzmir's Menderes district that feeds into the Tahtalı Dam, a significant supply of drinking water for the city has come under an alarming threat.

The dumping of garbage and debris next to Tahtalı Stream, flowing into Tahtalı Dam, which meets İzmir's drinking water needs, has caused an outrage.

In the eastern Black Sea region, the waste and rubbish people leave in high-altitude locations is being washed away into the streams as a result of severe rainfall that is causing landslides and floods, an expert warned.

As seen every year with the arrival of spring, Bayır Creek, an irrigation canal drawing water from the Tunca River in the country's northwest, has turned green once again due to pollution, with annoyed locals complaining about the awful smell coming from the canal.

The City of Light is losing its luster with tons of garbage piling up on Paris sidewalks as sanitation workers were on strike for a ninth day Tuesday. The creeping squalor is the most visible sign of widespread anger over a bill to raise the French retirement age by two years.

Terrifying images are coming from Visegrad because tons of waste have reached the Drina Lake due to the flood wave. Plastic bottles, bags, household appliances, furniture... all of it floats through the tributaries and has formed an ecological bomb that is about to explode.

As part of the June 5 World Environment Day, children across the country have picked up rubbish on the streets in various organizations to raise environmental awareness.

In Istanbul, the Fatih Municipality gathered around 300 young volunteer environmentalists to collect garbage on the streets of the Balat neighborhood.

Photos of litter and garbage after vandalism