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‘Nobody cares’: the Turkish farmers bearing the burden of UK’s plastic waste problem
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Britain exported 139,000 tonnes of rubbish to Turkey last year, leaving smallholders and poor districts of Adana to cope with the debris, microplastics and toxic smoke UK plastic ‘waste colonialism’ found to be polluting Turkey’s farming heartland Plastic debris clings to the reeds in a waterway met
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