Melikgazi Municipality collected 15 tons of textiles from the textile waste collection containers placed in different parts of the district in order to separate the textile wastes at the source and recycled them.

        The clothes, which were brought back to life by recycling, were cleaned and delivered to the citizens in need.

        Preventing wastage, protecting natural assets, saying that it is very important to gain environmentally friendly consumption habits, Mayor of Melikgazi Dr. Mustafa Palancıoğlu said, “With textile recycling, we aim to prevent the use of natural resources and energy, which are necessary for the recovery of textile wastes at the source and the production of new products.We act with the awareness that packaging waste is a more valuable resource for our country's economy than raw materials.

We continue our work on separation at the source at full speed. As a district, we will continue our work on this issue without slowing down in order to increase environmental sensitivity. Textile wastes thrown into 50 textile waste collection containers distributed within the borders of our district are collected by the personnel of our municipality. After selecting the usable ones among the collected textile wastes, It is offered to the use of our citizens in need by being subjected to dry cleaning process. In May and June, approximately 4 tons of clothes were distributed after dry cleaning. Thus, textile wastes such as clothing, shoes, toys, bags and bed linen that citizens do not use are collected in textile waste collection containers and recycled. said