First Lady Emine Erdoğan attended the “Leaders’ Roundtable: Zero Waste, Circularity and Methane” meeting held on the sidelines of the 31st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP31) in Antalya.
Speaking at the meeting, First Lady Erdoğan stated that disposable bags constitute the 40 per cent of the global waste today, and said: “It is expected that solid municipal waste will increase by two-fold and reach 4 billion tons by 2050. If we address this waste load, which is virtually impossible to manage, solely as an environmental crisis, we would not be addressing it completely. This is in fact a crisis of mentality, and a crisis of culture and civilization at the same time. It is a proof that societies cannot march towards the future unless they calculate what they leave behind. Thus, the first step to combat climate change should be to put notions and values into their proper places.”
